After refreshing Christmas vacation, on Monday 2nd January 2017, ST PAULS COLLEGE, Bengaluru, began its second semester classes for B.A and B.Com students. The semester started with a Eucharistic celebration and Fr Prithvi Raj Philip, the Director of the College, invited the lecturers, the non-teaching faculty and the students to begin the New Year by invoking God’s blessings to successfully execute the plans and programmes during the course of the year. During the Eucharistic celebration, a special prayer was made for the students of BSc in Film and Television to do well in their first semester examinations which would begin on 4 January 2017 and conclude on 17th of the same month. ST PAULS COLLEGE gladly welcomes Miss Deepa George, as a full-time lecturer and Fr Sunil V. as a part-time lecturer to the Department of Commerce. We wish the management, staff, students and the new faculty members all the best and God’s blessings as they begin the New Year.