Annamalai University 2006 M.Phil English Indian Writing In - Question Paper

Indian Writing In English

Time three Hours
Maximum 100 Marks

ans ques. 1 and 4 others, choosing 2 from.
part A and 2 from part B.
All ques. carry equal marks.

I. Annotate any 5 of, the subsequent passages choosing atleast 2 from every group.

GROUP - A (5x4 = 20)

(a) that every Plotinus we learn
is what a few Alexander looted
ranging from the malarial rivers.

(b) His 1st son trainee
in telegraphy
has telegraphed thrice already for money.

(c) I'm thirty.
I must provide quality to the other half.

(d) Hand on chin you grew up,
all agog, on the Cook’s succulent folklore.

(e) cowering
below your monstrous ego, I ate the
magic loaf and
Became a dwarf.

(f) Loverlon,
It is only wise at times, to let Sleep
Make holes in memory.

(g) In this the poet obtains his moral proved
Who never spoke before his spirit moved.

(h) My mother only stated
Thank God the scorpion picked on me
and spared my children.

GROUP - B

(i) That is certainly not a kind of renaissance that is at all possible in India.

(j) Come along It won't be for long. I don't intend to be a Brahmin all my life! There’s money here and we’ll make a pile by the time we reach Daulatabad.

(k) What if I am a dhobi, your Majesty? When it comes to washing away filth no saint is a match for a dhobi.

(l) Chant your cruellest spells; Wind them about hismind till every coil bites deep. Whereever he goes, he shall never escape from me.

(m) Victor and thee, O Lord My sins and my life together lie at thy feet and my days end here, in the haven of thy forgiveness.

SECTION-A

2. explain Ezekiel as a satirical poet.

3. A.K. Poems abound in "recollected personal emotion" - explain.

4. explain R. Parthasarathy as a gentle poet.

5. explain Toru Ditt -as a Romantic poet.

6. explain a symbols presented by Tagore in his Gitanjali

SECTION-B

7. Sum up Aurobindo’s observations on ancient India.

8. elaborate Aurobindo's observations on Tagore, Vivekananda and Bankim Chandra Chatterjee ?

9. Sum up Gandhi's views on Ahimsa.

10. Consider Gandhi's autobiography as a spiritual document,

part - C

11. explain Coolie as a didactic novel.

12. Write a critical note on narrative techniques employed in Kanthapura.

13. define the David - Goliath struggle presented in The Man Eater of Malgudi.

14. elaborate the many hungers presented in So Many Hungers?

16. explain the violence presented in A Bend in the Ganges.

part - D

16. Write on the transformation of Chandalika.

17. Write critically on the significance of the opening scene of Tughlaq.

18. Write in detail on the blunders committed by Tughlaq

Earning:   Approval pending.