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Section B

Answer at least five questions.

Each question carries 6 marks.

All questions can be attended.
Overall Ceiling 30.

Why does the speaker feel that he is nothing more than “so much small change” towards the
end?

Character sketch of the Astrologer.

Role of Nittilai.

Comment on Rushdie’s notion of Diasporic consciousness.

Role of Babu.

Describe the plight of the plebeians in ancient roman society to establish equality.

Charulatha as a representative of modern women in the upper class of colonial India.

How does the poem the Country without a Post office describe the pathetic situation of Kashmir ?
(5 x 6 = 30 marks)

Section C

Answer any two questions.

Each question carries 10 marks.

Write an essay on R. K. Narayan’s presentation of Indian society in his short stories with special
reference to an Astrologer’s Day.

Write an essay on the treatment of myth in the play The Fire and the Rain.

The relationship between an individual and his/her language is complex. Explain with reference
to the poem An Introduction.

Discuss the role played by culture in the development of the story Interpreter of Maladies.

(2 x 10 = 20 marks)

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