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MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAMME IN ENGLISH Term-End Examination

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December, 2009

O MEG-7 : INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE Maximum Marks : 100

Time : 3 hours

Note : Answer all questions. All questions carry equal marks.

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Explain with reference to context any four of the following passages in about 150 words each : 4x5=20 Your own divided face in a pair of glasses on an old man's nose is all the countryside you get to see. This is the soul of man. Body and brain Hungry for earth our heavenly flight detain. Really what keeps us apart at the end of years is unshared childhood. 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. (e) The Indian landscape sears my eyes, I have become a part of it To be observed by foreigners.

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I dreamed my love had set thy spirit free,

Enfrenchrised thee from Fate's O'ermastering power, And girt thy being with a scatheless dower Of rich and joyous immortality. What is that dirge like murmur that I hear Like the sea breaking on a shingle beach ? It is the tree's lament, an eerie speech, that haply to the unknown land may reach.

Discuss the relevance of Hind Swaraj in our own 20 times. OR

Do you agree with the view that people are more important than places in Vikram Seth's From Heaven Lake ? (Answer in 400450 words)

Discuss Gandhi's influence in the two novels that 20 you have read untouchable and Kanthapura (Answer in 400-450 words) OR

How successful is Achakka in her attempt to tell the story of her village in Raja Rao's Kanthapura ? (Answer in 400-450 words) MEG-7

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Discuss the personalities of Bim and Tara as 20 depicted through their relationship in Clear Light of day. (Answer in 400450 words) OR

Write a character-sketch of the astrologer in R.K. Narayan's short story. Do you feel sympathy or anger for him ? (Answer in 400450 words) What is the significance of the theme of history and 20 the individual in Rushdie's Midnight's children ? (Answer in 400-450 words) OR

What are the various devices that Dattani uses to show the continuity of the past in the present in Tara ? (Answer in 400450 words) -o0o-

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Indian English Literature.pdf

O'ermastering power,. And girt thy being with a scatheless. dower Of rich and joyous immortality. What is that dirge like murmur that I hear. Like the sea breaking on a shingle beach ? It is the tree's lament, an eerie speech,. that haply to the unknown land may reach. Discuss the relevance of Hind Swaraj in our own 20 times.

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