LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

FIRST SEMESTER – APRIL 2004

EL 1801/LE 719 – INDIAN LITERATURE IN ENGLISH

Date       : 15.04.04                                                                                                                  Max  : 100 marks

Duration : 9 – 12 noon                                                                                                                         Hours: 3 hrs

 

1. Answer the following in about 50 words each with interpretations of the given lines. (10 x 2 = 20 marks)
2. The true poet suffers from aphasia.
3. After twenty hours

It lost its sting

3. Time lifts the curtain unawares,

And sorrow looks into her face

4. I am my father now.
5. Nothing stays out; daughters

Get married to short lived idiots.

6. And don’t I do my puja properly, Go on

Tell me. I bathe every morning and then

I sit here for my puja, Don’t I

7. She dared threaten me! What can she do to me?

I am a good woman. Right’s on my side?

I’ve always been virtuous. She can’t do a thing to me.

8. It’s more or less the same crowd that

Patronises these places and my quarrel

With it is that it is merely culture –

Consuming, not culture – learning

9. The regional cultures have hardly any interest in one

another and are more involved in their own identity questions

Than in those of an all – India culture.

10. I think time has turned and we must now copy some of the ways

of the Christians  in order to propagate our religion among the Buddhist people.

1. Answer five of the following in about 150 words each:             (5 x 8 = 40 marks)
2. What makes Kamala Das come down so hard on the world of males.
3. Give a list of the observations that Ramanujam makes about the traditional home.
4. Why, according to Parthasarathy has, poetry going commercial?
5. What universal truth does the Pardha Nashin discover in her own life?
6. Contrast the characters of Laksmi and champa?
7. Evam Indrajit is a typical Indian play. Justify this statement.
8. Comment on the chief character of the

III. Write an essay on one of the following in about 400 words:                                         (1 x 20 = 20 marks)

18. Show that Tagore’s’ poem ‘The Child’ moves from darkness to light.
19. Vijay Tendulkar is preoccupied with the problems of the middle class in his play Sakharam, the Binder. Explain
20. Mulk Raj Anand is a compassionate writer. Discuss this from the Untouchable. Is he the voice of the novelist?

 

 

 

 

 

 

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1. Attempt any ONE of the following in about 400 words. (1 x 20 = 20 marks)
2. What are Khushwant Sing’s musings on India?
3. Show how Toru Dutt uses nature as a back drop for portraying human emotions
4. Explore the historical events that Sri Aurobindo has incorporated in the poem ‘The Tiger and the Deer’.
5. Bring out the socio-political concerns expressed by Henry Derzio in ‘The Harp of India’.
6. Make a study of R.K. Narayan as a novelist.
7. Describe the kind of anguish that you perceive in Anita Desai’s ‘Voices in the lily’
8. Discuss the use of symbols in Kamala Markandaya’s ‘A Handful of Rice’.
9. Examine the essential features that make Indian Writing in English singular

 

 

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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.A DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

I SEMESTER – NOV. 2004

EL 1801 – INDIAN LITERATURE IN ENGLISH

Date        : 27.10.04                                                                             Max      : 100 marks

Duration : 9 – 12 noon                                                                                    Hours    : 3 hrs

 

1. Answer the following in about 50 words each with interpretations of the given lines.

(10 x 2 = 20 marks)

1. An unexpected November

shut the door in my face:

 

2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Call

Him not by any name, he is every man

 

3. Things come in every day

to lose themselves among other things

lost long ago among

other things lost long ago

 

4. O Master of the Birds, grant sanctuary and shelter

Also to a homing bird that bears a broken wing

 

5. The old man from the East murmurs to himself: “I have seen!”

 

6. Mine is no ordinary appetite.

 

7. A link based on a need. The need ended. the link snapped.

 

8. If I hadn’t tasted the fruit of knowledge

I could have gone on living in this paradise

of your blessed society of rules. Now I can

only batter my head against the wall.

 

9. Communists get quick results because when you

adopt the means of annihilating men, they do

not remain to oppose you.

 

10. All talk of national integration has so far proved to be an exercise in futility

 

1. Answer five of the following in about 150-200 words each: (5 x 8 = 40 marks)

 

11. Narrate the peculiar experiences that Kamala Das encountered in those early formative years of her life

 

12. How does Sarojini Naidu view the evanescence of youth and beauty in ‘The Purdah Nashin’

 

13. What is the grouse that Parthasarathy has against his fellow poets?
14. Identify the major conflict found in the poem ‘The Night of the Scorpion’.
15. Symbolism in Sakharam, the Binder
16. Evan Indrajit is the best example of experimental theatre
17. Mulk Raj Anand speaks through Bakha, the chief character of The Untoucheable:

 

 

III. Write an essay on ONE of the following in about 400 words:                    (1 x 20 = 20 marks)

 

18. Illustrate how Parthasarathy and Ramanujar deal with the subject of Indian culture and tradition.

 

19. Vijay Tendulkar’s preoccupation with the middle class problems pervade the play Sakharam, the Binder

 

20. Is there a solution to the problem of Untouchability in the novel The Untouchable.?

 

21. Depict the picture of India and Indian culture from the two prose pieces prescribed for study.

 

1. Attempt any ONE of the following in about 400 words. (1 x 20 = 20 marks)

 

22. Discuss Toru Dutt’s ‘Our Casuarina Tree’ as a poem that embraces the past, the present and the future.

 

23. Bring out the symbolic, spiritual and mystical nature of Aurobindo’s ‘ ‘Rose of God’.
24. K. Narayan is the best among the Indian English novelists. Explain through the novel ‘The Financial Expert.’

 

25. “Voices in the city” echoes the modern generation.

 

26. Kamala Markandaya expresses the powerful reality of poverty through ‘A Handful of Rice.’

 

27. ‘Train to Pakistan’ is a positive novel.
28. Describe the features of Indian Writing in English citing examples from the texts you have studied.

 

 

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