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Second Semester Degree Examination, May 2010
ENGLISH (Common)
Course No. 2: 2A03ENG: Readings on Indian Constitution, Secularism and Environment
Time: 3 Hours Max. Weightage: 30
I. Answer any one of the following in about 200 words:
1) What do you think of the discrimination suffered by Kumud Pawde in her early life?
2) What is Meena Alexander trying to convey through Meera? (1x4=4)
II. Answer any one of the following in about 200 words:
3) What idea of the Constitution, Centre and States do you get from Palkhivala’s speech?
4) What is the significance of Green School Contest? (1x4=4)
III. Attempt any one of the following in about 200 words:
5) Write a letter to the editor of a newspaper on the large scale, indiscriminate sand mining from the river beds in your area.
6) Analyse the passage given below:
A large number of elected Dalit and women panchayat presidents suffered humiliation at the hands of the vice – presidents and co – members and even government officials. In many cases it was found that the Dalit presidents had to take orders from caste – Hindu leaders and that a substantial number of women presidents were proxies for their husbands or other men of their families. The provision in the Act that the president and the vice-president should sign cheques jointly was often used by the vice presidents to put pressure on the presidents. In fact, in 1997, caste-Hindu hostility led to the massacre of six Dalits including Murugesan, president of the Melavalavu village panchayat in Madurai district (Frontline, July 25, 1997). Caste-Hindu panchayat presidents who were sympathetic to Dalit causes were also not spared. One such panchayat chief was hacked to death in Coimbatore district (Frontline, April 12).
For rural women and Dalits, most of whom were elected to these posts for the first time, it was an uphill task. Fear of facing hostile people prevented them from even convening the mandatory gram sabha meetings. The police and the administrative machinery only added to their woes. The only redeeming factor was that some departments of the Central and State governments and numerous non-governmental and inter-governmental agencies, besides some political parties and Dalit/women’s organizations, tried to help them, through workshops and training and capacity-building programs, to overcome the impediments.
Six years after the three-tier panchayati raj institutions were put in place and nearly a year after the second round of elections to them were held, the ground situation with regard to the empowerment of Dalits and women appears to be changing for the better, albeit slowly. This seems to be the case at least in the southern districts of Tirunelveli and Madurai, which constitute the epicenter of caste-based atrocities against Dalits. While it is true that elections could not be held in five villages in this region and the elected panchayat chiefs of two villages had to lay down office, a churning process is very much visible in a number of other villages. There is a perceptible rise in the level of Dalit assertion, many Dalit and women panchayat presidents today speak with greater confidence than was the case a few years ago, and they are more aware of their rights and responsibilities.
At the other end of the spectrum, people from the dominant caste-Hindu communities and from the village orthodoxy have also indicated a change in fear that their villages will be left out in the process of development, howsoever slow it may be. (1x4=4)
IV. Answer any four of the following, each in a paragraph of about 80 words:
7) How does the poet frustrate the landlady in her game of racism?
8) Patriarchal logic against women’s education presented in ‘The Exercise Book’.
9) The drowning incident described by Kottarathil Sankunni.
10) The early life of Medha Patkar.
11) What does Mahapatra convey through his poem? (4x2=8)
V. Answer all questions in the four bunches choosing the correct answer from the options given against each:
12) A) Protection of life and personal liberty are ensured by _________
i) Right to equality
ii) Cultural and Educational rights
iii) Right against exploitation
iv) Right to freedom
B) Nani A. Palkhivala was an eminent __________
i) Politician
ii) Lawyer
iii) Administrator
iv) Journalist
C) ‘Even before the mist clears, you will hear all these little pop-pop-pop sounds’. The sound came from _________
i) The early birds
ii) Splashing of water
iii) The lotus buds popping open
iv) Pattering of the rain
D) Shirley Temple was the rage then.
The underlined expression means
i) Object of hate
ii) Intense anger
iii) Unfriendly
iv) Popular and fashionable
13) A) Republic is a political system in which __________
i) The supreme power is vested in people and their elected representatives
ii) There are two houses of parliament.
iii) The president is all powerful
iv) The centre and state share power equally
B) Sitakant Mahapatra hails from ________
i) West Bengal
ii) Orissa
iii) Karnataka
iv) Andhra Pradesh
C) The all pervasive domination by the Centre ________
i) Is good for development
ii) Makes the country strong
iii) Cements the unity of the country
iv) Is inconsistent with the spirit of the Constitution
D) Rural voters are persuaded by ________
i) Genuine service to the community
ii) Petty gifts
iii) Offer of employment
iv) Developmental initiatives
14) A) It was said that ‘Arakkal is half Chirakkal’, because ________
i) Arakkal got half the properties of Chirakkal
ii) Chirakkal never fully accepted the Arakkal family
iii) Chirakkal was far more powerful than Arakkal
iv) Chirakkal gradually grew in power and influence
B) ‘Ali Raja’ is a distortion of _________
i) Raja Mohammed Ali
ii) Arakkal Raja
iii) Raja of Ali family
iv) Ruler of the seas
C) The princess married a Muslim and embraced Islam because ________
i) Of forced conversion
ii) Resentment towards her family
iii) Of strategic reasons
iv) Of her desire to uphold conventions
D) __________ captured Maldives for the Kolathiri.
i) Ali Moosa
ii) Muhammed Ali
iii) Aryankulangara Nayar
iv) None of these
15) A) The criteria for development should be __________
i) Exploitation of nature
ii) Employment generation
iii) Economic benefit
iv) Sustainability and justice
B) In private schools, the main problem is the _________
i) Fixation over marks
ii) Discipline
iii) High fees
iv) All these
C) Baba Amte is _________
i) The leader of Chipko movement
ii) A journalist
iii) Gandhian human rights activist
iv) Medha Patkar’s disciple
D) Ramanujan was enraged over the Champak tree because ___________
i) He was not a lover of nature
ii) Champak trees were useless
iii) The flowers smelt unpleasant
iv) The flowers gave his mother migraine (4x1=4)
VI. Answer any six of the following, each in two or three sentences:
16) Why did Kamala Das say that she and her brother were neglected children?
17) Which are the two temples described by Basavana?
18) Who is Uma? What was her obsession?
19) What was the World Bank’s decision in the wake of NBA movement?
20) What does Raju Solanki mean by the ‘thorny weeds of hate grown in the garden of your mind’?
21) Who were Arakkal Rajas?
22) How does the society domesticate girls and introduced them to roles they are to perform in later life? (6x1=6)
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Second Semester Degree Examination, May 2010
ENGLISH (Common)
Course No. 2: 2A03ENG: Readings on Indian Constitution, Secularism and Environment
Time: 3 Hours Max. Weightage: 30
I. Answer any one of the following in about 200 words:
1) What do you think of the discrimination suffered by Kumud Pawde in her early life?
2) What is Meena Alexander trying to convey through Meera? (1x4=4)
II. Answer any one of the following in about 200 words:
3) What idea of the Constitution, Centre and States do you get from Palkhivala’s speech?
4) What is the significance of Green School Contest? (1x4=4)
III. Attempt any one of the following in about 200 words:
5) Write a letter to the editor of a newspaper on the large scale, indiscriminate sand mining from the river beds in your area.
6) Analyse the passage given below:
A large number of elected Dalit and women panchayat presidents suffered humiliation at the hands of the vice – presidents and co – members and even government officials. In many cases it was found that the Dalit presidents had to take orders from caste – Hindu leaders and that a substantial number of women presidents were proxies for their husbands or other men of their families. The provision in the Act that the president and the vice-president should sign cheques jointly was often used by the vice presidents to put pressure on the presidents. In fact, in 1997, caste-Hindu hostility led to the massacre of six Dalits including Murugesan, president of the Melavalavu village panchayat in Madurai district (Frontline, July 25, 1997). Caste-Hindu panchayat presidents who were sympathetic to Dalit causes were also not spared. One such panchayat chief was hacked to death in Coimbatore district (Frontline, April 12).
For rural women and Dalits, most of whom were elected to these posts for the first time, it was an uphill task. Fear of facing hostile people prevented them from even convening the mandatory gram sabha meetings. The police and the administrative machinery only added to their woes. The only redeeming factor was that some departments of the Central and State governments and numerous non-governmental and inter-governmental agencies, besides some political parties and Dalit/women’s organizations, tried to help them, through workshops and training and capacity-building programs, to overcome the impediments.
Six years after the three-tier panchayati raj institutions were put in place and nearly a year after the second round of elections to them were held, the ground situation with regard to the empowerment of Dalits and women appears to be changing for the better, albeit slowly. This seems to be the case at least in the southern districts of Tirunelveli and Madurai, which constitute the epicenter of caste-based atrocities against Dalits. While it is true that elections could not be held in five villages in this region and the elected panchayat chiefs of two villages had to lay down office, a churning process is very much visible in a number of other villages. There is a perceptible rise in the level of Dalit assertion, many Dalit and women panchayat presidents today speak with greater confidence than was the case a few years ago, and they are more aware of their rights and responsibilities.
At the other end of the spectrum, people from the dominant caste-Hindu communities and from the village orthodoxy have also indicated a change in fear that their villages will be left out in the process of development, howsoever slow it may be. (1x4=4)
IV. Answer any four of the following, each in a paragraph of about 80 words:
7) How does the poet frustrate the landlady in her game of racism?
8) Patriarchal logic against women’s education presented in ‘The Exercise Book’.
9) The drowning incident described by Kottarathil Sankunni.
10) The early life of Medha Patkar.
11) What does Mahapatra convey through his poem? (4x2=8)
V. Answer all questions in the four bunches choosing the correct answer from the options given against each:
12) A) Protection of life and personal liberty are ensured by _________
i) Right to equality
ii) Cultural and Educational rights
iii) Right against exploitation
iv) Right to freedom
B) Nani A. Palkhivala was an eminent __________
i) Politician
ii) Lawyer
iii) Administrator
iv) Journalist
C) ‘Even before the mist clears, you will hear all these little pop-pop-pop sounds’. The sound came from _________
i) The early birds
ii) Splashing of water
iii) The lotus buds popping open
iv) Pattering of the rain
D) Shirley Temple was the rage then.
The underlined expression means
i) Object of hate
ii) Intense anger
iii) Unfriendly
iv) Popular and fashionable
13) A) Republic is a political system in which __________
i) The supreme power is vested in people and their elected representatives
ii) There are two houses of parliament.
iii) The president is all powerful
iv) The centre and state share power equally
B) Sitakant Mahapatra hails from ________
i) West Bengal
ii) Orissa
iii) Karnataka
iv) Andhra Pradesh
C) The all pervasive domination by the Centre ________
i) Is good for development
ii) Makes the country strong
iii) Cements the unity of the country
iv) Is inconsistent with the spirit of the Constitution
D) Rural voters are persuaded by ________
i) Genuine service to the community
ii) Petty gifts
iii) Offer of employment
iv) Developmental initiatives
14) A) It was said that ‘Arakkal is half Chirakkal’, because ________
i) Arakkal got half the properties of Chirakkal
ii) Chirakkal never fully accepted the Arakkal family
iii) Chirakkal was far more powerful than Arakkal
iv) Chirakkal gradually grew in power and influence
B) ‘Ali Raja’ is a distortion of _________
i) Raja Mohammed Ali
ii) Arakkal Raja
iii) Raja of Ali family
iv) Ruler of the seas
C) The princess married a Muslim and embraced Islam because ________
i) Of forced conversion
ii) Resentment towards her family
iii) Of strategic reasons
iv) Of her desire to uphold conventions
D) __________ captured Maldives for the Kolathiri.
i) Ali Moosa
ii) Muhammed Ali
iii) Aryankulangara Nayar
iv) None of these
15) A) The criteria for development should be __________
i) Exploitation of nature
ii) Employment generation
iii) Economic benefit
iv) Sustainability and justice
B) In private schools, the main problem is the _________
i) Fixation over marks
ii) Discipline
iii) High fees
iv) All these
C) Baba Amte is _________
i) The leader of Chipko movement
ii) A journalist
iii) Gandhian human rights activist
iv) Medha Patkar’s disciple
D) Ramanujan was enraged over the Champak tree because ___________
i) He was not a lover of nature
ii) Champak trees were useless
iii) The flowers smelt unpleasant
iv) The flowers gave his mother migraine (4x1=4)
VI. Answer any six of the following, each in two or three sentences:
16) Why did Kamala Das say that she and her brother were neglected children?
17) Which are the two temples described by Basavana?
18) Who is Uma? What was her obsession?
19) What was the World Bank’s decision in the wake of NBA movement?
20) What does Raju Solanki mean by the ‘thorny weeds of hate grown in the garden of your mind’?
21) Who were Arakkal Rajas?
22) How does the society domesticate girls and introduced them to roles they are to perform in later life? (6x1=6)
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