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M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

FIRST SEMESTER – APRIL 2007

EL 1803 – INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH – 2OTH C

 

 

 

Date & Time: 28/04/2007 / 1:00 – 4:00      Dept. No.                                       Max. : 100 Marks

 

 

PART – A

1. Answer the following in 50 words each: ( 10 x 3 = 30 Marks )

 

1. It is insight into the nature of reality (darsana), or

experience of reality (anubhava).

• What is referred to here?

 

2. You are all knowing, friends,

what sweetness is in Miss Pushpa.

• Comment on the language used in these lines.

 

3. You know how old women are.

They stick to you like burr.

• What is the purpose of her sticking to you?

 

4. You don’t step inside the old man’s head.

• What makes you to feel so?

 

5. I would rather roam with kalidasa n kabir

or go on a spiritual journey with dante.

• Identify the purpose of the speaker in joining them to go to places.

 

6. “…..both provide………

-the queenliest flower that blows”.

• How does the flower given by Flora to Love provide both?

 

7. “A grey baboon sits statue-like alone

Watching the sunrise while on lower boughs”

• Explain the simile and beauty of the passage.

 

8. “Sons who run away come back”
   • Bring out the Biblical echo in the passage and relate to the context.

 

9. “Facing east where three rivers met”
   • Comment on the significance of the direction and junction of the rivers.

 

10. “The swan sleeps with her young under her wings”
    • Describe the symbolism in the line.

 

 

PART – B

 

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

 

11. Critically evaluate Upamanyu Chatterjee’s views on Indian Administrative System.
12. Bring out the symbolism in Mukta Dhara.
13. Do you agree with Sharat Chandra in his views about Indian Politics?
14. Is Raju a flat or a round character? Justify your answer with examples.
15. How does Train to Pakistan view Indian history during independence?
16. Briefly picturise the status of Indian women as perceived by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy.
17. ‘Tughlaq’ reflects the political mood of disillusionment which followed the Nehru era of idealism in India. – Substantiate.

 

18. ‘Kanthapura’ is a narration of the sthala-purana of Raja Rao – Discuss.
19. Bring out the irony and humour in A.K. Ramanujan’s obituary’.
20. Bring out Babani Battacharya’s views on ‘So many   Hungers?

 

PART – C

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

 

21. The poems of Toru Dutt elevate her to be a bridge between the Indian and Western cultures – substantiate.

 

22. Spirituality being the master key of the Indian mind, Renaissance in India is only through preservation by reconstruction – Discuss.

(Or)

Record the sentiments of Bhaka, the untouchable in Mulk Raj Anand’s novel on social evil.

 

23. How does Radhakrishnan present his views on Hinduism?
24. Consider the variety in theme, content and style in Indian Poetry in English.

 

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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

1. Answer the following in 50 words each: (10 x 3 = 30 marks)

1. A living tradition influences our inner faculties, humanizes our nature and lifts us to a higher level.
2. She won’t let you go.

You know how old women are.

1. Now I ask other speakers to speak

and after words Miss Pushpa

will do the summing up.

1. it’s true i write in english

dream in the language of shakespeare n keats

but i am not an anglo my friend

1. The rickshaw driver wants

to be paid so he can

pay the tonga driver

1. Unknown yet well known to the eye of faith.
2. and was brought back in plane

and train and military truck

and before the telegrams reached.

1. But someone told me he got two lines.

in an inside column of a Madras newspaper.

1. But none was exclusive, the three elements were always present.
2. We have practically to take three facts into consideration.

 

PART – B

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

1. How does Upamanyu Chatterjee feature the Indian

Administrative Service in English, August.

1. How does Sharet Chandra view his motherland from abroad?
2. Justify the title, The Guide.
3. Write a critique on Train to Pakistan.
4. How does Ezekiel showcase India in his poems?
5. The past of India is her stupendous vitality with all her plethora of activity – Elaborate.
6. Define what is beauty as revealed in The Dance of Shiva by Coomaraswamy
7. Babani Battacharya’s views in So Many Hungers
8. Idealism Vs Pragmatism in the play “Tughlaq”
9. 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)

1. Bring out the features of Hindu Dharma as propounded by Radhakrishnan.
2. a) Explain with examples how Mukta Dhara is still relevant to India.

OR

1. b) Comment on the themes and concerns in the Indian writing in English.

1. Establish how Spirtuality is the master-key of the Indian mind.
2. a) Recollect the reflections of Toru Dutt, A.K. Ramanujan and Dom Moraes and show how they are similar to each other.

OR

1. b) Consider the cultural assumptions in the rich oral heritage of India as seen in

‘Kanthapura’

 

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M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

FIRST SEMESTER – November 2008

    EL 1803 – INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH – 20TH C

 

 

 

Date : 04-11-08                 Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 1:00 – 4:00

 

1.     Annotate or interpret the following in 50 words each:                                       (10 x 3 = 30))

 

1. It cannot be split up into a few sharply defined elements,

as the intellect, the emotions    and the will.

 

2. More candles, more lanterns, more neighbours,

More insects, and the endless rain.

 

3. The rickshaw driver wants

to be paid so he can

pay the tonga driver.

 

4. She hobbles along anyway

And tightens her grip on your shirt.

 

5. i hate hyphens

the artificial bridges

between artificial values

in the name of race religion n language’

 

6. “……transparent river where

The swan sleeps with her young under her wings”

 

7. “Nothing stays out ; daughters

get married to short-lived idiots

sons who run away come back”

 

8. “Being the burning type ,

He burned properly”

 

9. “And the waves gently kissed the classic shore

Of France or Italy……..”.

 

10. “There is a closer semblance to the recent Celtic movement

In Ireland”

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

11. Make a character study of Raju the guide.
12. Comment on the style of Upamanyu Chatterjee.
13. Discuss the symbolism in Mukta Dhara.
14. How does Sharat Chandra view India from abroad?
15. Discuss how Radhakrishnan defends Hinduism.
16. Mention the plethora of activities that the Indians carried on in the past.
17. Tughlaq is a political allegory- discuss.
18. How do you justify the title “So Many Hungers”
19. Mulk Raj Anand’s views in “The Untouchables”
20. Bring out the Indianness in the novel Kanthapura.

 

 

 I II. Answer any TWO of the following in 450 words each:                         (2 x 15 = 30 marks)

 

21.      Attempt an essay on Indian Writing in English, based on

its historical development, with suitable examples.

 

22. a)  Bring out the Indian sensibility from the poems

prescribed for your study.

OR

1. b) Juxtapose Ezekiel’s poetry of humour and simplicity and

Kolatkar’s poetry of photographic pen pictures.

 

23. a)Depict the Hindu view of Art in“TheDanceofShiva”.

OR

1. b) The Renaissance  in India implies the rebirth of her soul into a new

body  of energy- Discuss.

 

24.       Describe the small scale reflections of A.K.Ramanujan on a great house.

 

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M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

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FIRST SEMESTER – April 2009

EL 1803 – INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH – 20TH C

 

 

 

Date & Time: 17/04/2009 / 1:00 – 4:00  Dept. No.                                               Max. : 100 Marks

 

 

1. Annotate or interpret the following in 50 words each: (10 x 3 = 30 marks)

 

1. A sawed – off sunbeam comes to rest

gently against the driver’s right temple.

 

2. Is it a museum of beliefs, a medley of rites, or a mere map, a geographical expression?

 

3. You look right at the sky.

Clear through the bullet holes

she has for her eyes.

 

4. i am a POET

i have lived forty centuries under various names

 

5. You are all knowing, friends,

What sweetness is in Miss Pushpa.

 

6. “A grey baboon sits statue-like alone

Watching the sunrise………………”

 

7. “ Unread library books usually mature in two weeks

And begin to lay a row of eggs”

 

8. “ And he left us a changed mother

And more than one ritual”

 

9. “ For many they were home, for me too wild

Too walled for me those valleys full of death”

 

10. “ But none was exclusive, the three elements are always present”

 

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

 

11. Write a long note on the theme of spirituality and the sense of sacrifice in Mukta Dhara.
12. Enumerate the themes in Indian Poetry in English, with examples.
13. Discuss how the sleepy village of Mano Majra becomes an epicentre of communal violence.
14. Critically evaluate English, August.
15. Is Raju a true hero? Discuss.
16. Recall the tender and indelible memories of Toru Dutt depicted in her poems.
17. Discuss Idealism Vs Pragmatism in the play “ Tughlaq”.
18. Comment on the style of Kanthapura by Raja Rao.
19. Bring out the contemporary significance of “ The Untouchables”.
20. Trace out the realism in the novel “So Many Hungers”.

PART – C

III. Answer any TWO of the following in 450 words each:    (2 x 15 = 30 marks)

 

21. How do Ezekiel and Kolatkar feature India in their poems?
22. a). Write a critical essay on Indian Writing in English, tracing its origin, growth and development.

OR

b). Condense the views of Radhakrishnan as found in The Hindu View of Life and

draft your critique on it.

23. Spirituality is the master key of the Indian mind – Discuss.
24. a) Attempt an essay on the placement of women in “The Dance of Shiva”

OR

1. b) A.K.Ramanujan’s poems are completely Indian though satirical- Discuss.

 

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