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‘Shadow, mist, storm’ on the one hand, ‘flames, fire,’ on the other. Comment on the effect of these and similar images of contrast on the viewer/reader.
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How genuine is the love that Manjula expresses for her sister?
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The sister does not appear in the play but is central to it. What picture of her is built in your mind from references in the play?
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When the image says—‘Her illness was unfortunate. But because of it, she got the best of everything’
What is the nature of Manjula’s reply?
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When the image says—‘Her illness was unfortunate. But because of it, she got the best of everything’
How can it be related to what follows in the play?
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What are the issues that the playwright satirizes through this TV monologue of a celebrity?
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‘Broken Images’ takes up a debate that has grown steadily since 1947—the politics of language in Indian literary culture, specifically in relation to modern Indian languages and English. Discuss.
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The play deals with a Kannada woman writer who unexpectedly produces an international bestseller in English.
Can a writer be a truly bilingual practitioner?
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The play deals with a Kannada woman writer who unexpectedly produces an international bestseller in English.
Does writing in an ‘other tongue’ amount to a betrayal of the mother tongue?
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Why do you think the playwright has used the technique of the image in the play?
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The play is called a monologue. Why is it made to turn dialogic?
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What is the posture the celebrity adopts when the camera is on and when it is off?
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What is the central theme of the poem - ‘Time and again’?
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What apprehensions does Ingram harbour regarding the contemporary film industry?
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"If I find you fighting again, I’ll be back to stop it. Take care; you should not need a tiger to keep the peace." How do the above lines align with the novel ‘A Tiger for Malgudi’?
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Describe the relationship between Captain and his wife in the novel ‘A Tiger for Malgudi’.
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Lakshmi Holmstrom in “The Novels of R. K. Narayan” Calcutta: Writers Workshop Publication, 1973, comments “Different abilities and values are opposed and matched until Pal becomes a “nightmare to Margayya”. Keeping the above statement in mind, trace the evolution of Margayya and Mr. Pal’s relationship.
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“A man whom the goddess of wealth favours need not worry much. He can buy all the knowledge he requires. He can afford to buy all gifts that Goddess Saraswathi holds in her palm” In the light of the above lines, elaborate on the relation of the human and divine realms in R.K. Narayan’s The Financial Expert.
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| As the first were made to blind Others, these which come behind Will work upon ourselves, and blind our eyes. If our loves faint, and westwardly decline, To me thou, falsely, thine, And I to thee mine actions shall disguise. The morning shadowes wear away, But these grow longer all the day; But oh, love's day is short, if love decay. Love is a growing, or full constant light, And his first minute, after noone, is night. |
- What does the poet mean by ‘the first’?
- How are the first different from others that follow?
- What is meant by love declining westward?
- What does morning shadows represent?
- What is the night symbolic of?
- Which word is an apt synonym for ‘thine’
- Ours
- yours
- hers
- theirs
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| But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover! A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e’er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover! And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething, As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing, A mighty fountain momently was forced: Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher’s flail: And mid these dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river. Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean; And ’mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war! |
- How is the chasm described in these lines?
- What did Kubla Khan hear from afar?
- Which sacred river is being referred to in the lines above?
- What are bursts of water compared to?
- What does the phrase By woman wailing for demon-lover mean?
- An apt antonym for the word ‘savage’ is ______.
- civilized
- vagabond
- severe
- ferocious
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