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IGNOU MEG 14 Important Questions with Solutions for December 2023 Exams

1. Discuss with reference to the context any four of the following passages : 4×5=20
(a) Love broke into loud lamentations
The mother cried for divine explanations
Mourners swarmed her death bed

(b) Love live thirst
Though all the world is for you
Yet the most precious gift of all
Is the thirst that the creator showered on you

(c) Our children are about to enter
these lovely kitchens,
come, for their sake,
let‟s demolish
these kitchens now !

(d) What impudence in the sunlight !
The wind‟s thoughts are wandering,
as though it has seen the long banished
lover living in disguise.

(e) We‟ll strive to untie the narcissus with you,
And she‟ll be able to satiate her longings
O bumble-bee, the black bumble-bee !

(f) That can‟t be
That can‟t be
She had died many years ago
She cannot live any longer.

2. Analyse the narrative of the novel „Samskara‟. (500 words) 20
Or
“The theme of communalism is the major concern of the novel „Tamas‟.” Discuss. (500 words)

3. Discuss the theme of power in the play „Tughlaq‟. (500 words)
Or
Examine the use of the motif of disguise and resemblance used in the play „Tughlaq‟. (500 words)

4. Attempt one question each from parts (a) and (b) : 10+10
(a) Comment on the style of the story „The Empty Chest‟. (225 words)
Or
Discuss Vijaydan Detha‟s art of storytelling in the story „The Compromise‟.

(b) Comment on the predicament of the tribals in the story „Salt‟. (225 words)
Or
Birthday‟ is typical of the stark realism the early Basheer practised. Substantiate. (225 words)

5. Discuss Bama‟s „Karukku‟ as an autobiographical narrative. (500 words) 20
Or
Comment on the important features of Manto‟s style as you find them in „On Ismat‟.