abstract:Speranza is an annual youth festival held by the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi during the spring semester. The brainchild of Board of Student Welfare takes its name from the Italian word for hope.
We are told that his parents the eye-and-ear surgeon William Wilde and the poet Jane Francesca Wilde, who wrote under the name Speranza accumulated mountains of books at their home, in Dublin, and that young Oscar habitually read in bed, his mind ravished by Irish folktales, ancient-Greek texts, Romantic poems, and gothic novels.