Tribal Welfare Residential Degree College (M) Maripeda
(Affiliated
to Kakatiya University)
B.A/B.Com/B.Sc/BBA
under CBCS-2019-20
Semester
Examination pattern (Covid)
Sub: English
(Sem-III) Date of Exam: 11.03.2022 Time: 9am to 12pm(3 hours)
Question paper pattern UG ENGLISH- SEM- III (March 2022)
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Answer any FOUR questions: 4X15=60 marks
4 Q/A- from 6 texts(3 prose and 3 poetry)
1 Annotation- for the textual lesson
1 Question - Paragraph Writing
1 Question - Note making
1 Question- Public Speaking
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Instructions:
Answer any FOUR questions.
Each question
carries 15 marks.
Write at least
250 words, i.e., 2 pages for each answer (or at least 3 sides of a page).
Remember
Quantity is secondary, Quality of answer is primary.
Never use mother tongue / SMS language.
Write 4
different answers from 4 different units to get good marks.
Don’t forget to
write proper question number, before you begin to answer.
Maintain good
hand writing. It must be legible.
Use side
headings if necessary, draw margins.
Use two colour
pens, blue and black pen to highlight important points.
Question No: 1 to 4
Achieving Gender Equality in India: What
works and What Doesn’t
-Smriti Sharma
About the author: Smriti Sharma is a
lecturer in Economics at a famous college in UK. Her research focusses on Economics
and Caste, Gender-based discriminations. In this essay she highlights the
causes of Gender inequality and provides with some suggestions for achieving Gender
Equality in the society.
What is Gender Equality? Gender equality means that women and men, and
girls and boys, enjoy the same rights, resources, opportunities and
protections. But Gender inequality or the discrimination
against women and girls in Indian Society is at every level. It is a known fact
that, India’s GDP is increasing, but the Gender Development Index (GDI) is
disappointing. Crimes against women is increasing day by day such as rape,
dowry deaths, honour killings, women trafficking etc. The male- female wage gap
is stagnant at 50%, and even in white collar jobs it is 27%. Socially
prescribed gender roles such as Domestic works at home are unpaid. These
domestic works are making them as “Rabbits in the Kitchen”, and hindering their
opportunities.
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Gender Inequality |
A
Preference for Sons: Smriti talks about several reasons which are
causing this Gender inequality. In India, Patrilineality (inheritance is
considered only through the sons) and Patrilocality (married couple
should live with the husband’s parents) is the central role in increasing
Gender Inequality. Culturally, the sons are being considered as caregivers of
their aged parents. The dowry system, the dowry related violence, sex selective
abortions, infanticides are growing day by day. In India, according to 2011
census, there were 919 girls per 1000 boys. These practices are changing the
mindsets of parents not to invest more towards the birth, health and education
of girl children.
Affirmative
Action: Smriti talks about a strong action which has to be taken for the
empowerment of Women in society. She points out that the policy changes at the
village level Governance which mandated one-third representation by women as
local leaders. It has led to many changes like, women became confident
enough in reporting the issues against them. It also encouraged the parents and
adolescent girls to get educated and be in good positions. Another policy
change of land inheritance which gives equal rights to both the sons and
daughters lead change in the education and the age of the marriage of girl
children. Job opportunities to women on par with men has raised the
economic independence and better social status for women.
Getting to Parity: Smriti
concludes her essay that all children should be educated from an early age
about the importance of gender equality. Increasing the representations of women
in the politics, job opportunities in public and private domains will bring
parity women to parity with men. Programs like Beti Bachavo- Beti Padavo,
Sukanya Samruddi Yojana, SHE-Teams, Nirbaya Act, The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO-2012), Shadi Mubarak
& Kalyan Laxmi, WE-Hub (T-Hub for women) will lead to
Gender Equality in the society at local and national levels.
Question No: 1 to 4 They
shut me up in Prose
-
Emily Dickenson
Emily Elizabeth Dickenson was an American Feminist Poet.
She wrote so many poems. This poem, They Shut me up in Prose” was borrowed from
her Unpublished Poems. Through this poem, she comments on the male domination
against women.
“They shut me up in Prose –” is a famously
rebellious poem. It is a poem about the difficulty of the female artist. The
poet was restricted by men writers of that age to stick to the prose writing
instead of writing poetry. Sometimes the men writers compared her to a girl
child because children act as if they don’t listen to their elders. They also
compared her to a bird in the cage. But the writer explains that the bird in
the cage can be stopped from moving out of it but the mindset of the bird
cannot be stopped. In the same means, the men writers could physically imprison
her to stop her from writing poetry but her imaginations were moving around
like a star in the sky with greater speed than she could move. She also says
that a bird in the cage laughs at her captor and our poet also laughed at the
foolishness of male writers who thought of putting her in the prison to stop
her from writing Poetry.
In General, the society, most likely, does not shut
the adult speaker up in the cage, but “in Prose.” This is not the only poem in
which Dickinson compares prose unfavourably to poetry, specifically because
poetry is more open, more free. Perhaps, here, they want Dickinson to write
only letters, correspondence, not to try her hand at the male-dominated art of
poetry, which she uses to such powerful effect.
This poem’s tone is scornful—the bird laughs at its
captors, Dickinson scoffs at them for thinking they could keep her “Still!”—and
the poem itself is a part of that scoff. For the very existence of this poem
shows that “They” have failed, and is thus a kind of ironic defiance. They have
not shut her up in prose, they have in fact only inflamed and inspired her, by
trying to keep her captive, to write this very poem.
Question No: 1 to 4
Dalit Child Bride to $112 Million CEO: The Wonder Story of Kalpana Saroj
-Rakhi Chakraborty
About the author: Rakhi Chakraborty is an independent Journalist and
Sustainable activist.
Kalpana- The
Original Slumdog Millionaire: The Wonder story of Kalpana
Saroj is a about a Dalit girl who faced many difficulties since birth, poverty,
inhuman abuse of the society, suffered the trauma of child marriage, got a job
of two rupees a day and she drank poison for a time to end herself, but today
the same Kalpana Saroj is the CEO of $112 million business. Her life journey is
seen realizing the film “Slumdog Millionaire”
Early life: Kalpana was born in 1961 in the poor Dalit Buddhist
family of Ropar Kheda, in Akola district, Maharashtra. Kalpana’s father was a
police constable. Kalpana was the eldest of three sisters and two
brothers. Kalpana used to go to a nearby government school, she was intelligent
in studies but due to being a Dalit, she had to face neglect of teachers and
classmates too. She was not allowed to play with neighbours.
Child Marriage: She was pulled out
of school in class 7 and married off at the age of 12. She arrived in the slum
of Mumbai from Vidarbha. Kalpana used to get beaten up at the slightest lapse
in domestic work in her in-law’s house. After suffering from physical abuse,
her father dared to return a married girl to home. She went back to her village
to live with her family.
A Second Chance: She tried suicide
when her family was excluded from society as she thought that was shame and there
is no purpose left to live. She tried to kill herself by drinking three bottles
of pesticide but then saved by her relative. Kalpana says that the attempt to
suicide had brought a big twist in her life. She thought why and for what she
is dying? Why doesn’t she live for herself, by thinking about how she can
achieve something new?
A New Life: At the age of 16, she returned to Mumbai to start a
new life. As she was having skills in stitching clothes, she got a job in a
garment company. During that Kalpana saw that there is a lot of scope in tailoring
and boutique work. Her sister’s hospitalization made her to realize that life
without money was useless. She took a loan provided by Government to the
Scheduled caste people and bought a sewing machine. She also opened
a boutique shop and started doing hard work day and night. With the savings of money, Kalpana also set up
a furniture store and purchased land. Along with this, she also opened a beauty
parlour and She taught work to her roommates.
Kamani Tubes: Kalpana’s
struggle and hard work became acquainted and getting recognition in Mumbai. Eventually,
Kalpana came to know that ‘Kamani Tubes’, which has been closed for 17 years,
has been asked by the Supreme Court to start with its workers. Kamani Tubes is
the first to transfer ownership from legal heirs to workers union. The
company’s workers met Kalpana and appealed to help the company restart. When Kalpana
entered the Kamani Tubes the company, her knowledge about the company was nil,
but there were 140 litigation cases on company, two unions were fighting over
supremacy and a debt of 116 crore had been incurred. The court made her the
owner of ‘Kamani Tubes in 2006. The court ordered that Kalpana be directed to
repay the bank loan of Rs.116 crores in 7 years, which she paid in 1 year. The
court also asked them to pay the wages of the workers in three years, which she
paid in three months. She then began to modernize the company and gradually
moved it out of a bankrupt company into a profitable company. It was a hard
work of Saroj that today Kamani Tubes has become a company with 700 crores
turnover.
Awards: For her
great achievement, she was awarded the ‘Padma Shri’ in 2013. Despite having no
banking background, she was appointed by the government as the Board of
Directors of Bharatiya Mahila Bank. Besides being a woman entrepreneur,
Kalpana Saroj also serves as a Board of Governor of IIM Bengaluru. Though she
is alone, she is strong, brave, and at the same time she has a tender heart
which instantly reaches out to help the needy. She started an NGO to help the
needy. She is also known as a TEDx speaker.
Message: Truly,
the story of Kalpana Saroj, inspires us that it doesn’t matter whether we are
educated, illiterate, poor or rich, what does matter is our vision and hard
work that can change our life and making impossible things possible to fulfil
our dreams. She insists that Fancy MBAs can’t make an entrepreneur, instead
grit, perseverance, courage, faith in yourself does.
Question No: 1 to 4 Kitchen - by Vimala
About the poet:
The Poem Kitchen is
a feministic poem written by Vimala in Telugu and translated
into English by BVL Narayana Rao. Telugu version of the poem is vantillu.
Background:
The poem is about sufferings
of women in the kitchen. They are called as "Rabbits in the
kitchen" and imprisoned in the kitchen for ages. They never allowed moving
out of kitchen and do jobs or starting business of their own. Moreover, they
were not paid for the domestic works. The poet advises women to make the
kitchen as part of life, instead their whole life.
Summary:
The
speaker (girl) begins the poem by recalling her memories related to kitchen. The
poet describes the daily routine of a mother in the kitchen. Her day begins
with kitchen works such as washing the dishes, churning the butter, decorating
the stove, cooking food etc. The memories such as mouth-watering
dishes made by her mother; the smell of the seasonings; the aroma of incense
sticks from prayer room (usually a part of kitchen); games played with lentils
and jiggery; and mother and father game etc., made her to feel the kitchen as a
magic or dream world for an unmarried girl. For a grownup girl, the
kitchen is no longer playground instead it is a prison.
The
speaker (girl) is worried about the situation of her mother. She
compared the kitchen to a mortuary; her mother to a ghost; all the pans,
tins to dead bodies; and the smoke of the kitchen to clouds. The mother of the
speaker is compared to a blazing furnace; or a caged tiger that paces in the
cage (kitchen) restlessly. The speaker (girl) says that her mother
is the queen of the kitchen, but names engraved on the pots and pans
are her father's.
She is very sad about
the behavior of the family members as no one recognizes her work. They only
visit the kitchen to eat. No family member helps her in the kitchen. They have
their own works. Husband goes to work, and children to school. They say that “the
kitchen job is easy”, her mother is doing nothing. But, No one cares her,
No one helps her.
After her marriage, all her family members felt happy because the girl is in a big modern kitchen now. But the speaker (girl) understood that there is no change in her situation when she compared her life to her mother. She has become the rabbit in the new kitchen. Unlike her mother, now she is making new sweets, cakes (instead old fashioned dishes); her day wakes up with whistle of cooker (instead churning of butter), even though the names engraved on the pots and pans are her husband's.
She (all women like her and her
mother) dedicating their entire life to the kitchen. Before marriage the kitchen
is seen as dream world, but in fact it is a prison for her. These kitchens are
destroying the dreams, ambitions and talents of all the women. Even in the
dreams, kitchen haunts them and she feels the smell of seasonings in
jasmine.
Conclusion:
The poet describes how a woman dedicates her entire
life to the kitchen. She is suggesting the women to make the kitchens as part
of her life, but not the mission of their life. She compared it to mortuary.
She is the queen of the kitchen but the names on pots are her father’s or
husband’s. No one helps her in the kitchen. No one enters into the kitchen
except to eat.
So, finally she warns us not to send our children into these dangerous
kitchens which grab the dreams of our children. She urges all the
women to come out of kitchens and make the kitchen a part of life (not whole
life). She also calls us to remove the names engraved on pots and tins
and destroy the lonely kitchens.
Question No: 1 to 4 What is my
Name -P.
Satyavathi
About the author:
P.Satyavathi is a Telugu feminist writer. Her stories depict the lives of middle-class
people. She published 5 novels, 4 short story anthologies and a collection of
essays. ‘What is my name?’ is a parody of a children’s story where a fly
forgets her name. Identity of a women in the main theme of the story.
A young woman, before a marriage, was a woman educated,
cultured, intelligent, quick-witted, with a sense of humour and elegance. By
her beauty and intelligence, and also the dowry given by her father, a man
named Satyanarayana Murthy married her. He made
her housewife to a household and said “Look Ammadu, this is your house”.
The young lady started cleaning, swabbing the house and decorated with muggulu designs.
By seeing her talent, her husband said “Sabash, Keep it up!”. So she began
living with swabbing as mission in her life.
One day while scrubbing the house, she
suddenly asked herself, “What is my name?”. She saw a name board in front of
their house and scolded herself
that how she can forget her name so easily. She asked the maid about her name.
The maid said that she we do don’t need the owner`s name. Then her children
came to eat lunch. The housewife asked her two little children about her name.
The children laughed at her and said that they would always address their
mother only by using the word `Amma`. A neighbour came to her house to
invite her for a kum-kum ceremony. The housewife asked the neighbour
about her name. Her neighbour giggled and replied that they would address her
by right-handed side, white storied building down floor lady or by using the
fair and tall lady or the wife of manager of pharmaceutical industry. During
the night meal, she asked her husband to tell her name. He laughed and
surprised to listen this from his wife. He said that since they were married,
he used to call his wife as yemoi as she never told him to address him
with her name.
He said
that everyone addresses her as Mrs.Murthy and it is sufficient for her. Her
husband also suggested her to keep some name or the other, but she did not listen
to him and said that she wanted her own name. Murthy gave her an idea to verify
her certificates. The wife started searching all through the house but she did
not find them. Then she remembered that she had left all the certificates in
her parent`s house and did not even bother about them. Then the wife asked her
husband to give permission to go her parent`s house. Murthy rejected her
proposal and said that who would scrub the house these two days. The wife said
to her husband to manage these two days somehow or the other.
She went
to her parent`s house and her parents were shocked to see her coming alone and
they stared asking the questions. She explained them about the purpose of her
immediate visit and asked her mother to tell her name. Then her mother exclaimed
that the housewife was their elder daughter, educated up to B.A., married with Rs.50000
as dowry, and they bore the expenses of two deliveries. The house wife said
that all she said was her history and she only wanted her name. She asked to at
least show her certificates. Her mother replied that all the old papers inside
their almirah were cleaned out and the papers which were considered as
important were kept in the attic. She suggested her daughter to take a bath and
have good meal and search for them tomorrow. The housewife took
a good bath and ate her meal, but she could not sleep.
Next
day morning, she went to the school and college where she had studied. She
asked everyone she met: the trees, the anthills, the pond but she could not
know her name. She met her old friend who was also married and a housewife, but
scrubbing was just only a part of her life. The old friend remembered the names
of all her friends. The old friend shouted, “Sarada! My
dear Sarada!” and embraced the housewife. Old friend said
that the housewife was Sarada, she came first in their school in tenth class,
she got first prize in singing competition, she used to paint good pictures too,
and she was the only person living incognito. Sarada thanked
her friend Pramila, returned home and saw her achievements,
her paintings, prizes etc., in the attic.
Overjoyed,
she returned to husband’s home. Her husband claimed that the whole house was
not dusted for two days and he felt like a festival by her presence. Sarada said
that just scrubbing the floor would not make festival. And she told him to call
her as Sarada instead of yemoi and geemoi. For
the first time, she sat on the sofa which contained so much dust and showed her
children, an album of her paintings. Sarada recognized that
more than scrubbing and cleaning her identity was more important i.e., her
name. A woman without identity does not make sense to her living.
Question No: 1 to 4 Voice of The Unwanted Girl
-
Sujatha Bhatt
Sujata
Bhatt is one of the finest living poets. In this poem, she has voiced her
concern about the gender-bias. In our society girls are treated as inferior to
boys. The birth of a girl is considered a misfortune. The technique that helps
to determine the sex of the unborn child is used against the girl child. If the
expected baby is a girl, it is destroyed. That is why, the difference between
the number of boys and girls is widening day-by-day.
The
speaker in the poem is an unwanted girl who was destroyed before she was born.
She is speaking to her mother.
First Stanza:
The voice
of the unwanted girl is addressed to the mother. The voice of the unwanted girl
questions the mother’s conscience because she did not object female
infanticide. When the doctor told the pregnant mother that a girl child would
be born to her, she instructed the doctor to destroy the female child in the
womb. The infant was killed with the help of injection. This is the pathetic
voice of an unborn girl which haunts the imagination. This is a living story in
the form of poem. This is the incident of Mumbai where there was heavy traffic
and the monsoon set in. The wind is sulking through Mumbai. The poet realised
these things and presented it in her poem.
Second Stanza:
In
an autopsy, room, the medical examination of – a dead person is carried out to
discover the cause of death. In the autopsy room, the unborn child in the womb
was examined. The doctor knew that the mouth of the unborn child would not
search for anything and her head would be measured and cut apart. No one wanted
to touch the unborn girl. The girl says further that she looks like a sliced
pomegranate. This fruit was never touched by you. She addresses her mother and
says that she is the one she killed her. When the doctor told her that she was
going to bear a girl child. This is the second girl child. Afterwards as soon
as she put on her grass green sari, the orange stems parijatak blossoms and
they are glistening to her hair. This tragedy was happened when the doctor told
the mother that her second child would be a girl.
Third Stanza:
Everyone
was smiling. But now she asks her mother to look for her. She must look for her
because she would not come to her in her dreams. She again tells her mother to
look for the girl child because she would not become a flower and she would not
turn into a butterfly. And she is not a part of anyone’s songs. The unwanted
girl goes on lamenting the cruel practice of female foeticide. The unborn girl
child was killed not in accordance with Divine Will but because of social
constraints.
Fourth Stanza:
The
unborn female child once again tells her mother to look for her and look for
the place she has sent her. This unspeakable child must be looked for. She
looks for the place that can never be described.
She
addresses her mother and look for what she had done. This thing has been done
without the disposal and will of God. The unborn girl was like a gas with no
colour and a strong smell, used mixed with water to preserve things in the
laboratory. The girl wishes to have a look on her and her sin. She again and
again tells her to realise her great mistakes as well as a great crime.
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