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Posted By: SRIMATHI Member Level: Diamond Posted Date: 06 Jun 2008
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2005 Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) M.A IGNOU MEG7 Indian English Literature December 2005 Question paper
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IGNOU MEG7 Indian English Literature December 2005
MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAMME IN ENGLISH
Term-End Examination
December, 2005
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 in about 150 words each : (4x5=20)
(i) Which human eye may never more behold;
And let the guerdon of my labour be,
My fallen country ! One kind wish for thee !
(ii) This is the soul of man. Body and brain
Hungry for earth our heavenly flight detain.
(iii) And her withered, brave voice croons its paean of praise,
Be the gay world kind or unkind;
''La ilaha illa-l-Allah,
La ilaha illa-l-Allah,
Muhammad-ar-Rasul-Allah"
(iv) You see ? It voices my joys, my longings, my
Hopes, and it is useful to me as cawing
Is to the crows or roaring to the lions.
(v) 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.
(vi) Yo,rcome our in the sun and light a charminar
children play on the back of the twenty foot tortoise.
(vii) I can smell violence in the air
like the lash of coming rain -
mass hatreds drifting grey across the moon.
2. How are Swami Vivekananda's addresses to the Parliament of Religions relevant to us today ? (Answer in 400-450 words) (20)
OR
"From Heaven lake is a good conventional travelogue." Discuss. (Answer in 400 - 450 words)
3. Does Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchoble provide a viable solution to the eradication of untouchability ? Substantiate your answer with references to the text. (Answer in 450 - 500 words) (20)
OR
What are the main features of Raja Rao's narrative technique in Kanthapura ? (Answer in 450 - 500 words)
4. Discuss the personalities of Bim and Tara as depicted through their relationship in Anita Desai's Clear Light of Day. (Answer in 450 - 500 words) (20)
OR
Discuss the theme of Arun Joshi's story, "The Only American from Our Village". (Answer in 450 - 500 words)
5. What is the significance of the theme of History and the Individual in Rushdie's Midnight's Children ? (Answer in 450 - 500 words) (20)
OR
Discuss the importance of the family in Dattani's Tara. (Answer in 450 - 500 words)
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