Indian Writing In English 2000 (MA English)
M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION
December 2000 First Year
(ENGLISH)
Paper - IV
140 Indian Writing In English
Time 3 Hours
Maximum 100 Marks
Answer question ONE and FOUR others, choosing TWO from.
Section A and TWO from Section B.
All questions carry equal marks.
I. Annotate any FIVE of, the following passages choosing atleast TWO from each group.
GROUP - A (5x4 = 20)
(a) My backward place is where I am.
(b) I am not, believing ceremony
Always I am enjoying your company.
(c) The heart,
An empty cistern, waiting
Through long hours, fills itself
With coiling snakes of silence.
(d) He served his love in lethal doses.
(e) The sun has done its worst
Skimmed a language
Worn it to a shadow,
(f) Also emperors and poets
Who slept in my arms.
(g) Sometimes I think that
Nothing that ever comes
into this goes out.
(h) Nose eyes and knee-bend
cut fresh from stone
for a Parvati statue.
GROUP - B
(i) Spirituality is not necessarily exclusive; It can be and in its fullness must be all inclusive.
(j) India is the living, energy of a great spiritual conception and fidelity to it has been cry principle of her existence.
(k) Don't cover him Barani. I want my people to see his wounds.
(l) I am teetering on the brink of madness, but madness of God still eludes me. Why should I deserve that madness.
(m) When shall this turmoil be stilled? When my suffering is stilled? How can attain his mukhti until I attain mine?
SECTION - A
2. "Ezekiel's Indianness is a vital element in his thought, feeling ind imagery". - Discuss.
3. Bring out the Indianness in the poems of A.K. Ramanujam.
4. "There is hardly any sense of joy in the fact of R. Parthasarathys poetry". Elucidate.
5. Kamala Das as a confessional poet.
6. Tagore's "Gitanjali" as a universal poem.
SECTION - B
7. How does Sri Aurobindo trace the growth, decline and recovery of Indian spirituality ?
8. "Spirituality is the master - key of the Indian mind". How does Sri Aurobindo elaborate this idea ?
9. Consider "My Experiments with Truth" as a true autobiography.
10. The personality of Gandhi as presented by himself in "My Experiments with Truth"
SECTION - C
11. Account for the popularity of "Coolie" among Mulk Raj Anand's novels.
12. Treatment of Indian. freedom struggle as presented in "Kanthapura".
13. R.K. Narayan as a novelist.
14. Give a critical appreciation - of "A Handful of Rice"
15. Evaluate the contribution of Manohar Malgonkar as a novelist with special reference to "A Bend in the Ganges".
SECTION - D
16. Sketch the character of Chandalika.
17, Consider "Tuglaq" as an allegory of tile 2Oth century Indian political scene.
18. Girish Karnad as an Indian dramatist.
M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION
December 2000 First Year
(ENGLISH)
Paper - IV
140 Indian Writing In English
Time 3 Hours
Maximum 100 Marks
Answer question ONE and FOUR others, choosing TWO from.
Section A and TWO from Section B.
All questions carry equal marks.
I. Annotate any FIVE of, the following passages choosing atleast TWO from each group.
GROUP - A (5x4 = 20)
(a) My backward place is where I am.
(b) I am not, believing ceremony
Always I am enjoying your company.
(c) The heart,
An empty cistern, waiting
Through long hours, fills itself
With coiling snakes of silence.
(d) He served his love in lethal doses.
(e) The sun has done its worst
Skimmed a language
Worn it to a shadow,
(f) Also emperors and poets
Who slept in my arms.
(g) Sometimes I think that
Nothing that ever comes
into this goes out.
(h) Nose eyes and knee-bend
cut fresh from stone
for a Parvati statue.
GROUP - B
(i) Spirituality is not necessarily exclusive; It can be and in its fullness must be all inclusive.
(j) India is the living, energy of a great spiritual conception and fidelity to it has been cry principle of her existence.
(k) Don't cover him Barani. I want my people to see his wounds.
(l) I am teetering on the brink of madness, but madness of God still eludes me. Why should I deserve that madness.
(m) When shall this turmoil be stilled? When my suffering is stilled? How can attain his mukhti until I attain mine?
SECTION - A
2. "Ezekiel's Indianness is a vital element in his thought, feeling ind imagery". - Discuss.
3. Bring out the Indianness in the poems of A.K. Ramanujam.
4. "There is hardly any sense of joy in the fact of R. Parthasarathys poetry". Elucidate.
5. Kamala Das as a confessional poet.
6. Tagore's "Gitanjali" as a universal poem.
SECTION - B
7. How does Sri Aurobindo trace the growth, decline and recovery of Indian spirituality ?
8. "Spirituality is the master - key of the Indian mind". How does Sri Aurobindo elaborate this idea ?
9. Consider "My Experiments with Truth" as a true autobiography.
10. The personality of Gandhi as presented by himself in "My Experiments with Truth"
SECTION - C
11. Account for the popularity of "Coolie" among Mulk Raj Anand's novels.
12. Treatment of Indian. freedom struggle as presented in "Kanthapura".
13. R.K. Narayan as a novelist.
14. Give a critical appreciation - of "A Handful of Rice"
15. Evaluate the contribution of Manohar Malgonkar as a novelist with special reference to "A Bend in the Ganges".
SECTION - D
16. Sketch the character of Chandalika.
17, Consider "Tuglaq" as an allegory of tile 2Oth century Indian political scene.
18. Girish Karnad as an Indian dramatist.