LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

LO 21

FIRST SEMESTER – APRIL 2006

                                EL 1803 – INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH – 2OTH CENTURY

 

 

Date & Time : 22-04-2006/1.00-4.00 P.M.   Dept. No.                                                       Max. : 100 Marks

 

 

PART A

1. Answer the following in 50 words each: ( 10 x 3 = 30 marks )
2. i damn all hyphenated minds

prejudiced offerings of unenlightened souls

• Identify the reason for the speakers irritation.

2. Parting with his poison-flash

of diabolic tail in the dark room-

he risked the rain again.

• Who is referred to here? Who was his victim?

3. Her father was renowned advocate

In Bulsar or Surat,

I am not remembering now which place.

• How does the poet satirize Indianism here?

4. The Hindu philosophy of religion starts from and returns to an experimental basis.
   • Justify the importance of this statement.
5. You look right at the sky.

Clear through the bullet holes

She has for her eyes.

• Whose identity is established here?

6. For your sakes shall the tree be ever dear!
   • Identify the persons and the tree.
7. and was brought back in plane

and train and military truck

and before the telegrams reached

• What is the incident referred to here?

8. But someone told me

he got two lines

in an inside column

of a Madras newspaper

• Bring out the sarcasm in the lines.

9. … Bards of power

Had sung their claims

• What is the reference to?

10. A fighting South – East Asia
    • Why does he call it fighting?

 

PART B

1. Answer any EIGHT of the following in 150 words each: (8 x 5 = 40 marks)

11. Comment on the style of Upamanyu Chatterjee.
12. Justify the title ‘So Many Hungers’.
13. Consider the rich oral heritage of India as seen in Kanthapura.
14. Write a critique on ‘Good bye Party for Miss Pushpa T. S.’
15. Critically evaluate Sharat Chandra’s ideas on Indian democracy.
16. What are A. K. Ramanujan’s observations on the Hindu joint family system?
17. Show how Toru Dutt is similar to the British Romantic poets.
18. Describe some of Dom Morae’s early experiences and escapades.
19. Raju plays many roles in ‘The Guide’. Enumerate them.
20. Show how Kushwant Singh sketches his characters with a sure and steady hand, in ‘Trauin to Pakistan’.

PART C

III. Answer any TWO of the following in 400 words each:        ( 2 x 15 = 30 marks )

21. How does Radhakrishnan showcase Hinduism in ‘The Hindu View of Life’?
22. a) Discuss the symbolism in Mukta Dhara.

OR

1. b) Bring out the salient features of Indian Poetry in English with suitable examples.
2. How did India attain freedom as well as forge a new image of herself, accoring to Sri Aurobindo?
3. Trace the growth and evolution of Indian Writing in English

OR

Portray Tughlaq as a strange mixture of vision and eccentricity.

 

 

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