Assignment

B.A. (P) II Semester (CBCS)

English- Selections (Poems, Short Stories) from Modern Indian Literature
(DSC)

Code: 62031201

M.M.: 100

(Write your Name and Roll No. on each page of your answer sheet.)

Important: Attempt any two questions in about 500 words each.

Each question carries 50 marks.

1. Discuss Basheer’s ‘The Cardsharper’s Daughter’ as a mock epic.

2. How is the madness of Partition portrayed in the story ‘Toba Tek
Singh’?
3. The last line in the poem ‘Enterprise’ – “Home is where we have
to gather grace”- effectively sums up the theme of the poem.
Explain.
4. Critically analyse the poem ‘Forward March’ by Sri Sri.