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BDP Term End Examination c) Critically comment on the representation of December-2018 & June-2019 Malgudi in The English Teacher by R. K. Elective Course Narayan. ENGLISH d) Discuss how Mahesh Dattani addresses the 8th Paper notions of gender stereotypes in Tara. ( New Syllabus ) Indian Writing in English : EEG-8 UNIT-II ( Enrolled from July, 2015 ) 2. Answer any three of the following : 12 × 3 = 36 Time : 4 Hours a) Discuss with suitable references how Full Marks : 100 women novelists of the post-independence Weightage of Marks : 70% era have contributed to the genre of Indian Special credit will be given for precise and correct English fiction. answer. Marks will be deducted for spelling mistakes, b) How has Indian diasporic literature untidiness and illegible handwriting. The figures in the margin indicate full marks. developed in the post-liberalisation era ?

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‘Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.’ UNIT - I humorous ? 1. Answer any two of the following : 20 × 2 = 40 d) Show how a deep sense of hurt and a) Identify the zones of contact and show how frustration underlies the poet’s aggressive these helped in the development of Indian facade in ‘An Introduction’. Writing in English. e) Discuss in brief how writers like Salman b) Show how ‘Our Casuarina Tree’ becomes in Rushdie, Vikram Seth, and Amitav Ghosh essence a tribute to both the early and late evaded the ‘anxiety of Indianness’ in their works. Romantic poetic traditions. f) Comment critically on the setting of the story ‘India : A Fable’.

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UNIT-III 3. Answer any four of the following : 6 × 4 = 24 a) Who is Dean Mahomet ? Why is he an important figure in Indian writing in English ? b) Locate and annotate : He said The river has water enough To be poetic About only once a year. c) Explain the line in Mamang Dai’s poem : “The jungle is a big eater.” d) What is the significance of the fire in the novel Fire on the Mountain ? e) Who is King Chattergy ? What does he do in Gup City ? f) What is Meenakshi Mukherjee’s opinion about the Bengali Periodical Desh ? g) Show briefly how Rusty is obsessed with England. h) Critically comment on the ‘anagnorisis’ of Dattani’s Play Tara.

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