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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 birt

MEG-7 Block-8 Mahesh Dattani: Tara Unit-1 An Overview of Indian English Drama http://egyankosh.ac.in/bitstream/123456789/22864/1/Unit-1.pdf CHALLENGES FACED BY THE INDIAN ENGLISH DRAMATIST   So little incentive monetarily, there is a dearth of good dramatists in India, and English is no exception.   Indian English playwright has to write dialogues in a language that his characters may not speak all the time or even in the specific circumstances that the playwright has created. English is seen as the language of the elite, Indian English sponsors might only put up money for what they see as entertainment for the elite.  lack of trained actors in English yet no accepted Indian English for the writers to use confidently and consistently.  Indian English novelist lives and writes in the same circumstances and yet manages to write quite well and successfully.The novel is published and read individually by readers. How credible would it be for a normal Indian character to speak in English to