Students from the Law, Commerce and Engineering streams designed a curated exhibit on November 27, 2025. This activity was a part of their final assessment for the open elective course Law and Crime in Popular Imagination. The exhibition brought together crime fiction, literary works, real-life trials, and popular legal narratives through creative visual forms.

Each team selected a literary work or real-life case—such as Sherlock Holmes stories, archetypes in crime fiction, Edgar Allan Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Albert Camus's The Stranger, or the Burari murder case, to name a few among many others—and translated it into striking posters, models, storyboards, and other visual artefacts, highlighting intersections of law, crime, literature, media, and public perception.

Students showcased their work in an open exhibit, discussing key narratives, legal dilemmas, and the influence of popular stories on ideas of justice and authority. The exhibition highlighted interdisciplinary thinking, as teams creatively explored legal processes through design, symbolism, and storytelling. Many addressed themes like media trials, wrongful convictions, gendered violence, and ethical lawyering, using visual metaphors to present complex arguments in clear, accessible ways.

This culminating activity strengthened students’ skills in interpretation, collaboration, and public communication, while affirming creativity as a rigorous mode of engagement with law, crime, and literature.

This exhibit was coordinated by Dr. Shivani S. and Dr. Charitra H.G., Assistant Professors.