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
Duration : 9 – 12 noon
I. Answer the following in about 50 words each with interpretations of the given lines.
Max : 100 marks
Hours: 3 hrs
(10 x 2 = 20 marks)
01. The true poet suffers from aphasia.
02. After twenty hours
It lost its sting
03. Time lifts the curtain unawares,
And sorrow looks into her face
04. I am my father now.
05. Nothing stays out; daughters
Get married to short lived idiots.
06. 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
07. 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.
08. 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
09. 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.
II. Answer five of the following in about 150 words each:
(5 x 8 = 40 marks)
11. What makes Kamala Das come down so hard on the world of males.
12. Give a list of the observations that Ramanujam makes about the traditional home.
13. Why, according to Parthasarathy has, poetry going commercial?
14. What universal truth does the Pardha Nashin discover in her own life?
15. Contrast the characters of Laksmi and champa?
16. Evam Indrajit is a typical Indian play. Justify this statement.
17. Comment on the chief character of the untouchable.
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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IV. Attempt any ONE of the following in about 400 words.
(1 x 20 = 20 marks)
21. What are Khushwant Sing’s musings on India?
22. Show how Toru Dutt uses nature as a back drop for portraying human emotions
23. Explore the historical events that Sri Aurobindo has incorporated in the poem ‘The Tiger and the
Deer’.
24. Bring out the socio-political concerns expressed by Henry Derzio in ‘The Harp of India’.
25. Make a study of R.K. Narayan as a novelist.
26. Describe the kind of anguish that you perceive in Anita Desai’s ‘Voices in the lily’
27. Discuss the use of symbols in Kamala Markandaya’s ‘A Handful of Rice’.
28. Examine the essential features that make Indian Writing in English singular
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