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“TO COMMIT OURSELVES TO ACHIEVE OUR VISION THROUGH RELENTLESS PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE, ENSURING CREATIVITY AND CRITICAL THINKING, FOSTERING HUMAN VALUES AND PATRIOTIC FERVOR”..
GSS College is one of the very few colleges where the Languages Department teaches five languages: Marathi, Kannada, Hindi, Samskrita and, of course, English. The Department of languages is unique in that it has a shared history with RPD College. It formed an important part of RPD College of Arts and Science until its bifurcation in 1966 (into RPD College of Arts, and G S Science College.) As an integral part of GSS College, today it continues to hum with activity as always.
The Languages Department had many learned and eminent scholars as faculty in the past. Among them the erudite critic, Prof K G Kundangar and Prof P K Bhagoji (both Kannada), the irrepressible Pu La Deshpande and Prof Anant Manohar (both Marathi), the feisty Prof R S Rege, the scholarly Prof K D Kurtakoti, Prof M S S Iyengar, and Prof L C Patil (all English), and Prof B B Almelkar (Hindi), are some of the luminaries who left a lasting impact on students.
Today, as before, the Languages Department continues to be a beehive of activity. Apart from teaching (pre-requisite) language and communication skills, it plays a crucial role in shaping student sensibilities into a wholesome and well-formed personality. More often than not, Language faculty supervise or assist in events like elocutions and debates, song and dance, essay and poetry writing, conducting a function, editing the College magazine, and so on, which add a zing to campus life. Without exception all of them figure on one or the other committee – and often – on more than one.