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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI 600 034
B.A.DEGREE EXAMINATION -ENGLISH LITERATURE
SECOND SEMESTER APRIL 2018
EL 2502- INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH
Date: 24-04-2018 Dept. No. Max. 100 Marks
Time: 01:00-04:00
PART A
I. Explain the following passages in about 50 words each: (10x2=20)
1. I know thou takest pleasure in my singing. I know that only as a singer I come before thy presence.
2. He was there for a day when they had the floods.
3. I must pretend, I must act the role Of happy woman, Happy wife. 4. The wind slipped through the leaves as if afraid lest its voice And the noise of its steps perturb the pitiless Splendour,
5. But still she gazed in her mirror and sighed "O King, my heart is unsatisfied."
6. Where the world has not been broken up into fragments By narrow domestic walls
7. That essential unity had been so powerful that no political division, no disaster or catastrophe had been able to overcome it.
8. All of us, I suppose, have varying pictures of our native land and no two persons will think exactly alike. 9. Though its colour be not deep and its smell be faint, use this flower in thy service and pluck it while there is time.
10. The unity of India was no longer merely an intellectual conception for me: it was an emotional experience which overpowered me.
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PART B
II. Answer any FIVE of the following in about 150 words each:
11. Explain the unconventional tone employed by A.K. Ramanujan in his A River.
12. Comment on the variety and unity that Nehru observes in India.
13. Sketch the character of Miss. LeelaBenare.
14. Trace the examples of white supremacy in MulkrajAnand'sThe Untouchable.
15. What are Dr.Radhakrishnan's prominent views on nationality and civilization?
16. How according to Gowrie Despande do women achieve a sense of catharsis with
their vociferous chat in her poem The Female of the Species?
17. Cull out the messages that Dr. A.P. J. Abdul Kalam has for youngsters in his
Ignited Minds.
18. Bring out the religious sentiments presented in GirishKarnad'sHayavadhana.
PART C
III. Answer any TWO of the following in about 400 words each: (2x20=40)
19. How does Tagore instill a sense of spirituality, courage and patriotism in the
minds of his readers? Substantiate with reference to the poems prescribed.
20. Present the picture of India as portrayed by Jawaharlal Nehru in the prescribed
essays from his magnum opus Discovery of India.
21. Examine the trial between the humanists and the anti-humanists as presented in
Vijay Tendulkar's Silence! The Court is in Session.
22. "Untouchable is a powerful work that exposed the dehumanizing contradictions and systematic oppressions inherent in India's stratified society". Justify.