Question Bank for Indian Writing In English

Sem 2

Q1 The story The Two Lady Rams offers a strong nationalist perspective
and a sharp critique of the British colonial regime. Discuss.

Q2 The strength of the story The Free Radio" lies in its political message of
a deadlock overtaking the country.Give a detailed answer.

Q3. "The Free Radio" presents a India taken for ride by the country's ruling
class that has ever servived on violence , tricky and hypocrisy. Discuss.

Q4 The short story "Swimming Iesson" gives the existential Travails of an

Indian immigrant in Canada.Give a well reasoned answer.

Q5 In the story"Intrusion" marriage stands deconstructed for the limitations

it puts on the feelings of a woman.Elucidate the above statement.

Q6 "In Intrusion" lets the reader know about a woman's feelings when she
finds herself caught in the accepted logic of matrimony.Discuss.

Q7 The "Sultan's Battery" focuses upon the wretched life conditions in

India of the post-reforms phase.Give a well reasoned answer.

Q8 Derozio's poetry reflected the aesthetics of longing for a world different

than the existing one. With reference to the poems in your course justify the
above statement.

Q9 Derozio thought poetry to be a medium of spreading social awareness

.Justify the above statement with reference to the poem The Orphan Girl.

Q10 In the poem "A Poem For Mother" the decision of the son to abandon
his motherland to seek his fortune outside reflects declining social
environment along with political and economic crisis of the North East .Do
you agree ?Give a well reasoned answer.

Q11.Troubled Political situation of the North East is reflected in the poetry

of Ngangom Discuss.
Q12 Ngangom's poetry is a response to conditions prevailing at the time.
Elaborate the statement.

Q13 Ngangom's work is anchored in a deeply internalized politics. With

reference to the poem"The Stronge Affairs Of Robin.S.Ngangom" analyse
the appropriateness of the above statement.

Q14 Ngangom's reaction to the bludgeoning violence of his times makes his
poetry the poetry of conflict '.Do you agree.?Give a well reasoned answer.

Q15 "The Strange Affairs Of Robin.S .Ngangom" is a narrative of

collective pain and suffering of the people of North East.Elucidate.

Q16 "A Poem For Mother" is a narrative of painful experiences of people

who are forced by circumstances to abandon their home lands and migrate to
alien lands.Give a well reasoned answer.

Q17 The mother is portrayed as a custodian of traditional and ancestral

values of the land in the poem"APoem For Mother".Elucidate the statement.

Q18 In the last lines of the poem the the poet draws a mother -mother
land and motherland- earth paralle.l Give a well reasoned answer.

Q19 In the poem The Orphan Girl the poet presents a social messagethrough
the portrayal of the plight of the Orphan girl Discuss.

Q20 The poem "An introduction" carves a distinct sense of self for the writer
who wishes to create her own space .Elucidate.

Q21 The speaking voice aims at taking leave of the norms built by an
entrenched male -dominated society .Explain.

Q22 In the poem "An Introduction"Das dares the male to grapple with a
woman enjoying self hood. Do you agree ?Give a well reasoned answer.

Q23 The poet author narration in the poem"My Grandmother's House"

preserves the alliance with the old world in an attempt to sustain against
acute loneliness. Discuss.
Q24 The poem "The Night Of The Scorpion" brings to the fore strong ties
that exist in the rural community .Elaborate

Q25 The poem eulozies mother hood .Elucidate the statement.

Q26 The title of the poem "Enterprise"denotes an effort to live life

meaningfully.Discuss.

Q27.The poem "Freedom To The Slave"catches authentically the conditions

of deep -rooted subservience india.Justify.

Q28 The novel In Custody fictionalizes the life impacted by the tragic saga
of partition. Discuss.

Q29 In Custody presents a critique of that understanding of language

which treats it as realted to a particular community. Comment.

Q30 The novel rejects the idea that language is a signifier of religious
identity and national loyality.Discuss.

The novel Swami And Friends presents a very nostalgic journey of school
life with emotional high's and low's with relationships and little care but
impacted by Nationalist movement of that times. Comment.

Q31 The chief strength of R. K .Narayan lies in his comic vision.Apply the
statement to the novel.