St. Xavier's is named after St. Francis Xavier, a Jesuit saint of the 16th Century who travelled to India. The English dept is brilliant, the most chilled out professors, really passionate, and really keep a class alive. Everyone talks about Malhar! The L.A lounge(L.A:Literary arts)book sales, movie screenings, on the spot peotry.. the soul of the college lies in the foyer and the woods...long haired men strumming guitars, couples (sometimes covertly sometimes not)getting cosy, impromptu poetry readings...its fun. ...there are traces of the infamous "xaviers attitude", the bombay space crunch doesn't allow for much space(though we have the largest campus in the city after IIT)