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Your Roll No...

Sr. No. of Question Paper: 4450 A

Unique Paper Code :12035909

Name of the Paper Bestsellers and Genre Fictionn

(GE)
Name of the Course Generic Elective for
Honours Courses

Semester :II/IV
Duration: 3 Hours 30 minutes Maximum Marks: 75

Instructions for Candidates

1. Write your Roll No. on the top immediately on receipt

of this question paper.

2. Attempt SIX questions in total.

PART A

three out of these questions. Each

Attempt any
marks.
question carries 10

The Blue Umbrella? Write

1. Who is Ram Bharosa in

a note on this character.

P.T.O.
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2. Analyse the character of Ayurvati in The
Immorta.s
of Meluha.

3. Write a short note on Obed Ramotswe in No. 1 Ladies

Detective Agency.

4. What makes Radar a memorable character in Paper

Towns?

5. Genre fiction becomes a bestseller when it breaks

away from a well-established formula. Would you
agree? Give a reasoned answer in relation to any one
text from the syllabus

PART B

Attempt any three out of these questions. Each

question carries 15 marks.

6. Discuss the relationship between Shiva and Sati, and

its importance in the novel, The Immortals of Meluha
by Amish Tripathi.

1. "Women are the ones who know what's going On.

They are the ones with eyes. Have you not reau
Agatha Christie?" Critically comment on Mma
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Ramotswe's statement and her desire to run a

detective agency by and for women.

write, to a great extent for ourselves,

8.
8. "Although we
of
but at the same time, writing is an art

writer has to have some reader

communication. So, a

ideal reader? Discuss

in mind." Who is Ruskin Bond's
style, using the
his fiction in terms of genre and

text as your point of reference.

prescribed

substantial
have witnessed a
9. The last twenty: years
the r e a s o n s
commercial Indian fiction. What are
rise in

for this growth?

as seen
of the journey or road trip
10. Discuss the motif

Paper Towns.

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