MEG-7 : INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE Old Question Papers of 10 years

June, 2021 MEG-7 : INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE 

Time : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100 Note : 

Answer all questions. All questions carry equal marks. 

1. Explain with reference to the context any four of the following passages in about 150 words each : 45=20 

(a) Neglected, mute, and desolate art thou, Like ruined monument on desert plain. 

(b) Love came to Flora asking for a flower That would of flowers be undisputed queen, The lily and the rose, long, long had been Rivals for that high honour. 

(c) Voice of infinity, sound in my heart, – Call of the One ! Stamp there thy radiance, never to part, O living Sun. 

 (d) A poet-rascal-clown was born, The frightened child who would not eat Or sleep, a boy of meagre bone. 

(e) Dress in sarees, be girl Be wife, they said. Be embroiderer, be cook, Be a quarreller with servants. 

(f) The new poets still quoted the old poets, but no one spoke in verse of the pregnant woman drowned, with perhaps twins in her kicking at blank walls even before birth. 

(g) Her last wish to be cremated here twisting uncertainly like light on the shifting sands. 

2. Discuss the Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable as a Gandhian novel. 20 OR Discuss the narrative technique of Raja Rao’s Kanthapura. 

 3. Comment upon the importance of the character of Raja in Desai’s Clear Light of Day. 20 

OR Write a critical essay on your understanding of Hind Swaraj. What is the relevance of the Hind Swaraj in the modern day context ? 

4. Discuss R.K. Narayan as a short story writer. 20 OR 

Discuss Ruskin Bond as a short story writer with special reference to ‘‘No Room for a Leopard’’ ? 

5. Discuss Rushdie’s novel Midnight’s Children as a postcolonial novel. 20 OR Comment on the plot of Mahesh Dattani’s Tara

Dec 2020

1. Explain with reference to the context any four of the following passages in about 150 words each : 4×5=20 

(a) These hands are cold&but if thy notes divine May be by mortal wakened once again, Harp of my country, let me strike the strain !

(b) For your sakes shall the tree be ever dear ! Blent with your images, it shall arise In memory, till the hot tears blind mine eyes ! 

(c) Beauty of the light, surround my life,µ Beauty of the light ! I have sacrificed longing and parted from grief, I can bear thy delight. 

(d) O Love, I dreamed my soul had ransomed thee, In thy lone, dread, incalculable hour From those pale hands at which all mortals cower, And conquered Death by Love, like Savitri. 

(e) It started as a pilgrimage, Exalting minds and making all The burdens light. The second stage Explored but did not test the call. 

(f) I who have lost My way and beg now at stranger’s door to Receive love, at least in small change ?

(g) He had spent his youth whoring after English gods. There is something to be said for exile : You learn roots are deep. 

2. Discuss Mulk Raj Anand’s novel Untouchable as a Gandhian novel. (500 words) 20 Or Discuss the use of various Myths and Symbolism in Raja Rao’s novel Kanthapura. (500 words) 

3. Discuss the salient features of Swami Vivekananda’s “Addresses at the Parliament of Religions”. 20 Or Discuss the political dimensions in Anita Desai’s novel Clear Light of Day. (500 words) 

4. Discuss Amitav Ghosh as a short story writer with reference to his stories in your syllabus. (500 words). 20 Or Discuss Githa Hariharan as a short story writer with reference to her stories in your syllabus. 

5. Discuss the narrative technique or Salman Rushdie’s novel Midnight’s Children. (500 words) 20 Or Discuss the plot of Mahesh Dattani’s play Tara.

 June, 2017 MEG -7 : INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE  

1. Explain with reference to the context any four of the following passages in about 150 words each : 4x5=20 

(a) Neglected, mute, and desolate art thou, Like ruined monument on desert plain : 

(b) Three happy children in a darkened room ! What do they gaze on with wide-open-eyes ? 

(c) Bride of the Fire, clasp me now close, — Bride of the Fire ! I have shed the bloom of the earthly rose, I have slain desire.                                                                                                           (d) In hope of your succour, how often in vain, So patient she sits at my gates, In the face of the sun and the wind and the rain. 

(e) Another phase was reached when we Were twice attacked, and lost our way. A section claimed its liberty To leave the group. 

(f) There is a house now far away where once I received love ... \

(g) The new poets still quoted the old poets, but no one spoke in verse of the pregnant woman drowned, with perhaps twins in her, kicking at blank walls even before birth. 

2. Discuss the narrative technique used by Mulk Raj Anand in his novel Untouchable ? 20 (500 words) OR Discuss Raja Rao's novel Kanthapura as a novel written in true Gandhian spirit. (500 words)                                                                                                          

3. Compare and contrast the autobiographies of Nehru and Nirad C. Chaudhuri. (500 words) 20 OR Critically comment on the way in which Anita Desai weaves the political elements in Clear Light of Day. (500 words) 

4. Attempt a character sketch of the astrologer. Does this story evoke sympathy or anger for him in you ? (500 words) 20 OR Discuss Shashi Deshpande as a short story writer. (500 words) 

5. Discuss the narrative technique of Salman Rushdie's novel Midnight's Children. (500 words) 20 OR What according to you are the major themes of Tara ? Discuss whatever you consider to be the most important of them. (500 words)

                                                                                                                                                                    December, 2017 MEG-7 : INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE                     

1.. Explain with reference to the context any four of the following passages in about 150 words each : 4x5=20

 (a) Thy minstrel hath no wreath to weave for thee, Save the sad story of thy misery ! 

(b) Love came to Flora asking for a flower, That would of flowers be undisputed queen, The lily and the rose, long, long had been, Rivals for that high honour.                                                                                                           (c) Life only is, or death is Life disguised, — Life a short death until by Life we are surprised. (d) 0 Love, alas, that love could not assuage, The burden of thy human heritage Or save thee from the swift decrees of Death. 

(e) I went to Roman Catholic School, A mugging Jew among the wolves. 

(f) I am Indian, very brown, born in Malabar, I speak three languages, write in two, dream in one. 

(g) Endless crow noises A skull in the holy sands Tilts its empty country towards hunger. 

2. Discuss the various wishes and plans of Bakha as narrated by Mulk Raj Anand in his novel Untouchable. (500 words) 20 OR Discuss the narrative technique of Raja Rao's Kanthapura. (500 words)                                                                                                         

3. What, according to you, is Gandhi trying to convey to the readers in Hind Swaraj ? Explain. (500 words) 20 OR Critically comment on Anita Desai's use of imagery in her novel Clear Light of Day. (500 words) 

4. Do you agree that "Gajar Halwa" offers a scathing comment on our social inequalities ? Give reasons. (500 words) 20 OR Discuss Ruskin Bond as a short story writer with reference to his stories in your syllabus. (500 words) 

5. Discuss the dominant themes Salman Rushdie weaves in his novel Midnight's Children. 20 (500 words) OR Discuss Mahesh Dattani's play Tara as a social tragedy. (500 words)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

June, 2018 INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE                                                                                                            1. Explain with reference to the context any four of the following passages in about 150 words each : 4x5=20 

(a) Those hands are cold — but if thy notes divine May be by mortal wakened once again, Harp of my country, let me strike the strain ! 

(b) Love came to Flora asking for a flower That would of flowers be undisputed queen, The lily and the rose, long, long had been Rivals for that high honour.                                                                                                           

(c) Beauty of the Light, surround my life, — Beauty of the Light ! I have sacrificed longing and parted from grief, I can bear thy delight. 

(d) In hope of your succour, how often in vain, So patient she sits at my gates, In the face of the sun and the wind and the rain. Holding converse with poverty, hunger and pain, And the ultimate sleep that awaits ... . 

(e) The Indian landscape sears my eyes. I have become a part of it. To be observed by foreigners. They say that I am singular, Their letters overstate the case. 

(f) I am sinner, I am saint. I am the beloved and the Betrayed. I have no joys that are not yours, no Aches which are not yours. I too call myself I. (g) My tongue in English Chains, I return, after a generation, to you. I am at the end Of my Dravidie tether, hunger for you unassuaged.                                                                                                         

 2. Discuss the Mulk Raj Anand's novel Untouchable as a modern novel. (450 words) 20 OR Discuss Raja Rao's Kanthapura as a Gandhian novel. 

3. Discuss Mahatma Gandhi's Hind Swaraj as a postcolonial text. (450 words) 20 OR Discuss the prose style of Nirad C. Chaudhuri with reference to The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian. 

4. Discuss the prose style of Ruskin Bond with reference to No Room for a Leopard. (450 words) 20 - OR Discuss Anita Desai's Clear Light of Day as a feminist novel. 

5.Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children is in the • biographical mode. Comment. (450 words) 20 OR Discuss Mahesh Dattani's Tara as a play with social purpose.                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

December, 2018 MEG-7 : INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE                                                                       

1. Explain with reference to the context any four of the following passages in about 150 words each : 4x5=20 

(a) Where is that glory, where that reverence now ? Thy eagle pinion is chained down at last, And grovelling in the lowly dust art thou, Thy minstrel hath no wreath to weave for thee Save the sad story of thy misery ! 

(b) Three happy children in a darkened room ! What do they gaze on with wide-open eyes ?                                                                                                           

(c) The golden light came down into my brain And the grey rooms of mind sun-touched became A bright reply to Wisdom's occult plane, A calm illumination and a flame. 

(d) 0 Love, I dreamed my soul had ransomed thee, In thy lone, dread, incalculable hour From those pale hands at which all mortals cower, And conquered Death by Love, like Savitri. 

(e) I have made my commitments now. This is one : to stay where I am, As others choose to give themselves In some remote and backward place. My backward place is where I am. 

(f) I am Indian, very brown, born in Malabar, I speak three languages, write in Two, dream in one. Don't write in English, they said, English is Not your mother-tongue. 

(g) I can smell violence in the air like the lash of coming rain - mass hatreds drifting grey across the moon.                                                                                                          

2. Discuss Mulk Raj Anand's novel "Untouchable" as a novel of social criticism. (450 words) 20 OR Discuss the narrative technique of Raja Rao's Kanthapura. 

3. Discuss the prose style of Jawaharlal Nehru with reference to his An Autobiography. (450 words) 20 OR Discuss Shashi Deshpande as a short story writer with special reference to her story "Miracle". 

4. Write a critical appreciation of Githa Hariharan's "Gajar Halwa". (450 words) 20 OR Discuss the political dimensions in Anita Desai's novel Clear Light of Day. 

5. Discuss the narrative technique in Salman Rushdie's novel Midnight's Children. (450 words) 20 OR Discuss Mahesh Dattani's Tara as a problem play.

 2019 MEG-7 :

(a) Image of ecstasy, thrill and enlace, - Image of bliss ! I would see only thy marvellous face, Feel only thy kiss. [4x5=20] 

(b) Of love, I dreamed my soul had ransomed thee, In thy lone, dread, incalculable hour From those pale hands at which all mortals cover, And conquered Death by Love, like Savitri. 

(c) It started as a pilgrimage Exalting minds and making all The burdens light. 

(d) I am Indian, very brown, born in Malabar, I speak three languages, Write in Two, dream in one. 

(e) Now she looks for the swing in cities with fifteen suburbs and tries to be innocent about it. 

(f) Endless crow noises. A skull on the holy sands tilts its empty country towards hunger. 

(g) You look down to the roaring road, You search for signs of daybreak in What little light spills out of bus. 

2. Discuss Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable as a social novel. [20] OR Discuss the character of Moorthy in Raja Rao's Kanthapura. [20] 

3.. Discuss the theme of alienation in Anita Desai's novel Clear Light of Day. [20] OR What is important in Gandhiji's Hindi Swaraj in today's context ? [20] 

4. Discuss the theme of Arun Joshi's "The Only American From Our Village". [20] OR Discuss the narrative technique used by Githa Hariharan in her story "Gajar Halwa". [20] 

5. Write an essay on the use of narrative technique by. Salman Rushdie in his novel Midnight's ohildren. [20] OR Identify the themes in Dattani's play Tara. [20]

(a) My country! In thy day of glory past A beauteous halo circled round thy brow, And worshipped as a deity thou wast. 

(b) Like a huge Python, winding round and round The rugged trunk, indented deep with scars Up to its very summit near the stars, A creeper climbs, in whose embraces bound No other tree could live.  

(c) Thy golden light came down into my feet; My earth is now thy playfield and thy seat. 

(d) The scents of red roses and sandalwood flutter and die in the maze of their gemtangled hair. 

(e) A poet-rascal-clown was born, The frightened child who would not eat Or sleep, a boy of meagre bone. 

(f) I am sinner, I am saint. I am the beloved and the Betrayed. I have no joys which are not yours, no Aches which are not yours. 

(g) Mortal as I am, I face the end with unspeakable relief, Knowing how I should feel if I were stopped and cut off. 

2. Discuss the narrative technique of Mulk Raj Anand's novel Untouchable. (500 words) 20 OR Raja Rao's Kanthapura captures the mood of India in the 1930s. Comment. (500 words) 

3. Discuss the prose style of Jawaharlal Nehru with reference to his Autobiography (500 words). 20 OR Discuss the central theme in Anita Desai's novel Clear Light of Day (500 words). 

4. Discuss the prose style of R.K. Narayan, with reference to his short stories prescribed in your syllabus (500 words). 20 OR Discuss Shashi Deshpande as a short story writer with reference to "The Miracle" (500 words). 

5.Discuss Salman Rushdie's novel Midnight's Children as a Postcolonial text (500 words). 20 OR Critically comment on Mahesh Dattani's play Tam as a feminist play (500 words)

June, 2015 

(a) Where is that glory, where that reverence now ? Thy eagle pinion is chained down at last, And grovelling in the lowly dust art thou: 

(b) Life only is, or death is life disguised, Life a short death until by life we are surprised 

(c) In her youth she hath comforted lover and son, In her weary old age, 0 dear God, is there none To bless her tired eyelids to rest ? 

(d) I have made my commitments now This is one : to stay where I am, As others choose to give themselves In some remote and backward place, My backward place is where I am. 

(e) I who have lost My way and beg now at strangers' doors to Receive love, at least in small change ? 

(f) Really what keeps us apart at the end of years is unshared childhood. 

(g) She opened her wormy legs wide. I felt the hunger there. 

2. Critically examine the treatment of untouchability in Mulk Raj Anand's novel Untouchable. Suggest an alternative title for the novel. (450 words) 20 OR Discuss the role of Moorthy in Raja Rao's Kanthapura. 

3. Make an assemment of Nehru's prose style on the basis of excerpts from his Autobiography. (450 words) 20 OR What, according to Ananda Coomaraswamy, does the bronze image of the dancing Shiva symbolize ? Discuss. (450 words) 

4. 'Degeneration of the worst kind is common to all the characters in the story A Trip into the Jungle.' Do you agree ? Discuss. (450 words) 20 OR Compare and contrast the characters of Bim and Tara in Anita Desai's Clear Light of Day. (450 words) 

5. Discuss the theme of identity in Midnight's Children. (450 words) 20 OR How important is the family in Mahesh Dattani's Tara ? Discuss.

December, 2015 

 (a) But who is the fair lady ? Not in vain She weeps, — for lo ! At every tear she sheds Tears from three pairs of young eyes fall amain, And bowed in sorrow are the three young heads. 

(b) 0 Love, alas, that love could not assuage The burden of thy human heritage, Or save thee from the swift decrees of Death. 

(c) The trip had darkened every face, Our deeds were neither great nor rare. Home is where we have to gather grace. 

(d) the portrait of a stranger, date unknown often signed in a corner by my father. 

(e) A temple stands frail and still in the distance, as though lost in reverie. 

(f) Outside, the sun has risen quietly, it aims through an eyelet in the tarpaulin and shoots at the old man's glasses. 

(g) He had spent his youth whoring after English gods. There is something to be said for exile. 

2. Critically examine the ending of Mulk Raj Anand's novel Untouchable. What is your suggestion for ending untouchability ? (450 words) 20 OR Discuss Raja Rao's art of characterisation in Kanthapura.  

3. Does Vikram Seth's writing lack depth ? Discuss, offering your own views. (450 words) 20 OR Discuss Amitav Ghosh as a writer of travelogues. (450 words) 

4. In what ways does R.K. Narayan's story 'Engine Trouble' appeal to you ? Discuss. (450 words) 20 OR What are Anita Desai's thematic concerns in Clear Light of Day ? Discuss. (450 words) 

5. Discuss the structure of Midnight's Children. (450 words) 20 OR How does Mahesh Dattani treat the issue of gender in Tara ? Discuss. 

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 (a) The new poets still quoted the old poets, but no one spoke in verse of the pregnant woman drowned, with perhaps twins in her, kicking at blank walls even before birth.

 (b) That language is a tree, loses colour under another sky.

(c) When, finally, we reached the place, We hardly knew why we were there. 

(d) Depressed and weary we march back to the lines A leader says over the evening wireless, "We are marching forward." 

(e) This is the kind of sadness which closes the eyes. Here the memory for faces of the dead never appears. 

(f) I have no joys which are not yours, no Aches which are not yours. I too call myself I. 

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(g) And Flora gave the lotus, "rose red" dyed, And "lily-white," queenliest flower that blows. 

2. (a) Discuss the appropriateness of the title, Untouchable. (450 words) 20 OR 

(b) Comment on the nature of Gandhi's influence on Indian fiction in English. 

3. (a) How does Anita Desai combine the personal and the political in Clear Light of Day ? (450 words) 20 OR (b) Discuss Vikram Seth or Amitav Ghosh as travel writers. (450 words) 

4. (a) What are the various themes that Rushdie deals with in Midnight's Children? (450 words) 20 OR (b) Discuss the theme and technique of Dattani in Tara. (450 words) 

5. (a) What are the main elements of a short story ? Illustrate with the help of any one of the short stories of your choice. (450 words) 20 OR (b) Comment on the theme of the East-West Encounter in Indian-English fiction. (450 words) 

 December, 2016 MEG-7 

 (a) When shall those children by their mother's side Gather, ah me ! As erst at eventide ? 

(b) Silence hath bound thee with her fatal chain; Neglected, mute, and desolate art thou, Like ruined monument on desert plain : 

(c) This is the soul of man. Body and brain Hungry for earth our heavenly flight detain. 

(d) The trip had darkened every face, Our deeds here neither great nor rare. Home is where we have to earn our grace. 

 (e) I resemble everyone but myself, and sometimes see in shop-windows, despite the well-known laws - of optics the portrait of a stranger, date unknown often signed in a corner by my father. 

(f) 0 Love, alas, that love could not assuage The burden of thy human heritage, Or save thee from the swift decrees of Death. 

(g) I look around for a cleansed feeling, the kind you experience walking in a temple after a river-bath. I cannot find it. I have misplaced it somewhere in the caverns of my past. 

2. How does Mulk Raj Anand paint the picture of a socially fragmented nation in Untouchable ? (450 words) 20 OR Comment on the role of the narrator in Raja Rao's Kanthapura. (450 words) 

3. Write a critical essay on Anita Desai's art of characterization in 'Clear Light of Day'. (450 words) 20 OR What aspects of Indian culture figure in the writings of Swami Vivekananda or Sri Aurobindo ? (450 words) 

4. Write on the structure and theme of R.K. Narayan's An Astrologer's Day. (450 words) 20 OR How are love, faith and science intertwined in Deshpande's Miracle ? (450 words) 

5. "Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children is a trend-setter for a new genre of fiction." Discuss. (450 words) 20 OR How does Dattani deal with the theme of gender in Tara ? (450 words) 

DEC 2013

(a) he popped a stone 4x5=20 in his mouth and spat out gods. 

(b) But not because of its magnificence Dear is the Casurina to my soul: Beneath it we have played; though years may roll.

 (c) Life only is, or death is life disguised, Life a short death until by life we are surprised. 

(d) Their jewel-girt arms and warm, wavering, lily-long fingers enchant through melodious hours. Eyes ravished with rapture, celestially panting, that passionate bosoms aflaming with fire 

(e) The slow movement seems, somehow, to say much more. To watch the rarer birds, you have to go Along deserted lanes and where the rivers flow In the silence near the source 

(f) There is a house now far away where once I received love. That woman died The house withdrew into silence, snakes moved Among books I was then too young To read. 

(g) He said : the river has water enough to be poetic about only once a year. 

2. How is the question of caste addressed in Mulk 20 Raj Anand's Untouchable ? Explain.(500 words) OR Raja Rao celebrates the passion of ordinary masses in his novel Kanthapura. Discuss. (500 words) 

3. Simple prose does have the same literary merit as 20 a poem, a drama or a novel. Comment. (500 words) OR Discuss the personalities of Bim and Tara as depicted in Clear Light of Day. (500 words) 

 4. There are no good or bad characters in Narayan's 20 works. Apply this statement to the short story An Astrologer's Day. (500 words) OR There is a great deal of self-scrutiny in Nehru's writing. Do you agree? Give a reasoned answer. (500 words) 

5. Write a critical note on Rushdie's use of English 20 in Midnight's children. (500 words) OR Discuss Dattani's treatment of gender in the play Tara

June 2014

(a) Thy eagle pinion is chained down at last, And grovelling in the lowly dust art thou: Thy minstrel hath no wreath to weave for thee Save the sad story of thy misery! 

(b) Thy golden light came down into my feet My earth is now thy play field and thy seat.

 (c) All mine, mine alone. It is half English, Half Indian, funny perhaps, but it is honest, It is as human as I am human, don't you see? 

(d) Now she looks for the swing in cities with fifteen suburbs and tries to be innocent about it. 

(e) You learn roots are deep. That language is a tree, loses colour under another sky. 

(f) I can smell violence in the air like the lash of coming rainmass hatreds drifting grey across the moon. 

(g) Not in vain She weeps-for lo! at every tear she sheds Tears from three pairs of young eyes fall amain, And bowed in sorrow are the three young heads. 

 II. In what ways does Swami Vivekananda see 20 similarities between Hinduism and science? (450 words). OR. Critically describe the main features of Raja Roo's narrative technique in "Kanthapura." (450 words). 

III. Critically assess Amitav Ghosh as a travel 20 writer. (450 words). OR. Discuss the importance of Gandhian philosophy in the Novel Untouchable. (450 words). 

V. Comment on the role of music in Clear light 20 of Day. (450 words). OR. Write an essay on history and the individual in Midnight's Children (450 words). 

V. Attempt a critical appreciation of 'The 20 Fourth Daughter' (450 words). OR. Comment on the use of English in 'Tara.' (450 words). **

December, 2014 MEG-7 : INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE T

. 1. Explain with reference to the context any four of the following passages in about 150 words each : 4x5=20 

(a) Yet shall they dream of it until the day ! When shall those children by their mother's side Gather, ah me ! As erst at eventide ? 

(b) This is the soul of man. Body and brain Hungry for earth our heavenly flight detain. 

(c) As others choose to give themselves In some remote and backward place. My backward place is where I am. M

(d) Endless crow noises. A skull on the holy sands tilts its empty country towards hunger. 

(e) And let the guerdon of my labour be My fallen country ! One kind wish from thee ! 

(f) How should I not scream, "I haven't finished ?" Yet that too would pass unheeded. 

(g) He popped a stone in his mouth and spat out gods. 

2. Comment on Gandhi's views on education and their relevance in the age of globalisation. (450 words) 20 OR Write an essay on Raja Rao's art of characterisation as revealed through Kanthapura. (450 words) 20 

3. Delineate the features of Nehru's prose style as illustrated in the passages taken from Autobiography. (450 words) 20 OR Comment on the significance of the title The Untouchable. (450 words) 

 4. Discuss Anita Desai's contribution to Indian-English fiction. (450 words) 20 OR Comment on Rushdie's use of language in Midnight's Children. (450 words) 20 

5. Attempt a critical appreciation of either Gajar Halwa. (450 words) 20 OR A Toast to Herself (450 words) 20 OR Comment on the theme of gender in Tara. 

June, 2011 MEG-7 : INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE 

. Explain with reference to content any four of the following passages in about 150 words each. 4x5=20 

(i) ... if thy notes divine May be by mortal wakened once again, Harp of my country, let me strike the strain. 

(ii) This is the soul of man. Body and brain Hungry for earth our heavenly flight detain. 

(iii) The trip had darkened every face, Our deeds were neither great nor rare Home is where we have to earn our grace. 

(iv) Probably only the Egyptian had it right/ their kings had sisters for queens/ to continue the incest/ of childhood into marry. MEG-7 1 P.T.O. Download More:- https://www.ignouassignmentguru.com/papers 

(v) I grasp your hand in a rainbow of touch. Of the dead I speak nothing but good. 

(vi) I can smell violence in the air Like the lash of coming rain - mass hatreds drifting grey across the moon. 

(vii) To force the pace and never to be still Is not the way of those who study birds Or women. The best poets wait for words. 

2. `Bakha is not just a suffering abstraction but a man 20 of flesh and blood convincingly Portrayed by the author. Discuss. (450 words) OR What are the main features of Raja Rao's narrative technique in kanthapura ? Discuss 

3. Discuss the distinctive features of Hinduism on 20 which Swami Vivekananda lays stress in his Address. (450words) OR 'Seth achieves almost photographic realism in his travelogue. We feel that we are travelling along with him on his journey'. Discuss. M

4. Discuss Birn's relationship with Baba, Raja and 20 Miramasi in clear light of Day. (450 words) OR Pick out two of the stories form your course and discuss why you like them. 

5. Discuss the main features of Rushdie's 20 characterization in Midnight's children. (450 words) OR What according to you, are the main themes of Tara ? M

 

 December, 2011 MEG-7 : INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE 

1. Explain with reference to the content any four of the following passages in about 150 words each. 4x5=20 

(a) At everytear she sheds Tears from three pairs of young eyes ball amain. And bowed in sorrow are the three young heads. 

(b) When I awoke , alas , my love was vain E'en to annul one throe of destined pain Or by one heart-beat to prolong they breath; 

(c) Long and lean , her years were cold as rubber She opened her wormy legs wide. I felt the hunger there, the other one the fish slithering , turning inside. 

(d) .... you cannot believe, darling can you that I lived in such a house and Was proud, and loved.... I who have lost My way and beg now at stranger's doors to Receive love , at least in small change. 

(e) Who was that, you ask The eight arm goddess, the priest replies A sceptic match coughs. you can count. But she has eighteen, you protest. 

(f) Depressed and weary we march back to the lines. A leader say's over the evening wireless, "We are marching forward." 

(g) He had spent his youth whoring the English gods. There is something to be said for exile.

 2. Critically examine Gandhiji's speech on untouchabality in untouchable. Do you think the solution he offers is radical enough ? Discuss. (450 words) OR How does Raja Rao achieve a fusion of theme, form and narration in kanthapune ? Discuss. 

3. How does Swami Vivekananda view Budhism ? 20 Discuss. (450 words) OR Comment on the significance Angor Wat as a symbol of the future , not the past. 

4. What are the major strengths of Anita Desai's 20 Clear Light of Day ? (450 words) OR Pick out two of the stories from your course and discuss the narrative technique used in them. 

5. Discuss the structure of Midnight Children. 20 (450 words) OR Discuss the major themes in Tara.

1. Explain with reference to context any four of the following passages in about 150 words each : 4x5=20

 (a) Why hang'st thou lonely on you withered bough ? Unstrung for ever, must thou there remain; Thy music once was sweet - who hears it now ? 

(b) Blent with your images, it shall arise In memory, till the hot tears blind mine eyes !

 (c) The poets only sang of the floods. (d) And then, feel shame, it is I who lie dying with a rattle in my throat. I am sinner, I am saint. 

(e) At the end of the bumpy ride with your own face on either side when you get off the bus. You don't step inside the old man's head. 

 (f) I have made my commitments now. This is one : to stay where I am, As others choose to give themselves In some remote and backward place. My backward place is where I am. 

(g) Voice of infinity, sound in my heart, - call of the one! Stamp there thy radiance, never to part, 0 Living Sun. 

2. Discuss in detail the efforts made by Gandhi to  bring together the fragmented society of India with reference to MulkRaj Anand's UNTOUCHABLE. (450 words) OR In what manner do the women characters in 'Kanthapura' contribute to the progress of the novel ? Discuss (450 words) 

3. How does Sri Aurobindo make a case for India's 20 civilization ? (450 words) OR Write an essay on Vikram Seth's prose style. (450 words) 

4. Comment on Shashi Deshpande's style of telling 20 a story, with reference to the MIRACLE ? (450 words) OR Enunciate Anita Desai's great contribution to the Indian - English novel. (450 words) 

5. Discuss 'Midnight's Children' as an autobiography of Saleem Sinai. (450 words) OR How do Dattani's techniques help to highlight his thematic concerns ? (450 words) 20 

December, 2012 MEG-7 : INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE Time : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100 Note : Answer all questions. All questions carry equal marks. 

1. Explain with reference to context any four of the following passages in about 150 words each : 4x5=20 

(a) The trip had darkened every face, our deeds were neither great nor rare. Home is where we have to earn our grace.

 (b) Her last wish to be cremated here twisting uncertainly like light on the shifting sands.

 (c) They minstrel hath no wreath to weave for thee save the sad story of thy misery! 

(d) At every tear she sheds Tears from three pairs of young eyes fall amain, 

(e) This is the soul of man. Body and brain Hungry for earth Our heavenly flight detain. 

 O Love, alas, that love could not assuage The burden of thy human heritage, Or save thee from the swift decrease of Death. It is I who laugh, it is I who make love And then, feel shame, it is I who lie dying with a rattle in my throat. 2

. Discuss in your essay the narrative technique employed by Raja Rao in Kanthapura. (450 words) OR 'Various themes have been explored, mirroring the social and political picture of colonial India in Anand's novel.' Enunciate. (450 words) 

3. How can Gandhi's views of Swaraj and Swadeshi, be relevant in present day India ? (450 words) OR Choose any two Non-fictional prose writers and discuss their writings and contributions. (450 words) 

4. Cita Hariharan deals with many issues in the 20 simple short story, 'Gajar Halwa'. Elaborate. (450 words) OR 20 

What is the role of Baba in the novel 'Clear Light of Day' ? (450 words) 5. "Rushdie's Midnight's children is a trend setter of sorts". Discuss. (450 words) OR Appreciate Dattani's use of language in Tara.

June, 2013 

 1. Explain with reference to the context any four of the following passages in about 150 words each : (a) Three happy children in a darkened room! What do they gaze on with wide-open eyes ? 4x5=20 A dense, dense forest, where no sunbeam pries, And in its centre a cleared spot 

(b) Really what keeps us apart at the end of years is unshared childhood.

 (c) The golden Light came down into my feet; My earth is now thy playfield and Thy seat.

 (d) 0 Love, alas, that could not assuage The burden of thy human heritage, Or save thee from the swift decrees of Death. MEG-7 1 P.T.O. Download More:- https://www.ignouassignmentguru.com/papers 

(e) The trip had darkened every face, Our deeds were neither great nor rare Home is where we have to earn our grace. 

(f) I am Indian, very brown, born in Malabar, I speak three languages, write in Two, dream in one. 

(g) But it's in flesh and flesh-tissue that my destiny lies and slowly corruption takes a hold. Over from the mortuary comes the corpse-drift. 

2. Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable is a piece of realistic  fiction. Comment. (500 words) OR Mahatma Gandhi is the hidden protagonist in  Raja Rao's Kanthapura. Discuss. (500 words) 

3. What does the bronze image of the dancing Shiva  symbolise in Coomaraswamy's essay. 'The Dance of Shiva' ? Explain ( 500 words) OR Do you agree with the view there are two  (Nirad C) Chaudhuris, a historical witness and a pseudo-historian ? Give reasons. (500 words) 

4. Discuss the use of history in Salman Rushdie's  novel Midnight's Children. (500 words) OR How important is family in Mahesh Dattani's play  Tara ? Explain ( 500 words) 

5. The country's partition parallels the partition of the Das family in Clear Light of Day. Comment. (500 words) OR Do you agree that Gita Hariharan's 'Gajar Halwa' offers a scathing comment on our social inequalities ? Give reasons. (500 words ) 

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