BEGC 132 : Selections From Indian Writing : Cultural Diversity in English Solved Assignment 2025-26

This assignment is split up into three sections: A, B and C. Attempt all the questions.

Section A

1. Answer, with reference to the context, any four of the following.
a) I am neither among sinners nor among saints Neither happy, nor unhappy I belong neither to water not to earth I am neither fire, not air I know not who I am,
b) Long as tresses the night of parting. The day of love is short as life, If I see not my love, O friend, How can I spend dark nights of grief?
c) Once you are used to it you never afterwards feel anything.
d) Once you are used to it even the sorrow that visits you sometimes, in dreams, melts away, embarrassed.
e) Long as tresses the night of parting, The day of love is short as life, If I see not my love, O friend, How can I spend dark nights of grief?
f) Give me, a quill, quickly She must be looking for me The reed cut off its hand Gave it to me and said Take it, I too am her servant.

Section B

2. Trace, with suitable examples, the links between language, culture and power.
3. What is the alternative perspective that the Chandrabati Ramayana offers? Why is it important? 

Section C

4. What do you understand by silenced text? Explain with reference to the text prescribed in your syllabus. 
5. How do Dalit narratives tell the stories of an entire community? Elaborate.