LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
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M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE
FIRST SEMESTER – APRIL 2008
EL 1803 – INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH – 20TH C
Date : 28/04/2008 Dept. No. Max. : 100 Marks
Time : 1:00 – 4:00
PART – A
- Answer the following in 50 words each: (10 x 3 = 30 marks)
- A living tradition influences our inner faculties, humanizes our nature and lifts us to a higher level.
- She won’t let you go.
You know how old women are.
- Now I ask other speakers to speak
and after words Miss Pushpa
will do the summing up.
- it’s true i write in english
dream in the language of shakespeare n keats
but i am not an anglo my friend
- The rickshaw driver wants
to be paid so he can
pay the tonga driver
- Unknown yet well known to the eye of faith.
- and was brought back in plane
and train and military truck
and before the telegrams reached.
- But someone told me he got two lines.
in an inside column of a Madras newspaper.
- But none was exclusive, the three elements were always present.
- We have practically to take three facts into consideration.
PART – B
- Answer any EIGHT of the following in 150 words each: (8 x 5 = 40 marks)
- How does Upamanyu Chatterjee feature the Indian
Administrative Service in English, August.
- How does Sharet Chandra view his motherland from abroad?
- Justify the title, The Guide.
- Write a critique on Train to Pakistan.
- How does Ezekiel showcase India in his poems?
- The past of India is her stupendous vitality with all her plethora of activity – Elaborate.
- Define what is beauty as revealed in The Dance of Shiva by Coomaraswamy
- Babani Battacharya’s views in So Many Hungers
- Idealism Vs Pragmatism in the play “Tughlaq”
- Describe some of the early experiences and escapades of Dom Moraes.
PART – C
III. Answer any TWO of the following in 450 words each: (2 x 15 = 30 marks)
- Bring out the features of Hindu Dharma as propounded by Radhakrishnan.
- a) Explain with examples how Mukta Dhara is still relevant to India.
OR
- b) Comment on the themes and concerns in the Indian writing in English.
- Establish how Spirtuality is the master-key of the Indian mind.
- a) Recollect the reflections of Toru Dutt, A.K. Ramanujan and Dom Moraes and show how they are similar to each other.
OR
- b) Consider the cultural assumptions in the rich oral heritage of India as seen in
‘Kanthapura’
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