BEGC-132 2025-26 SOLVED ASSIGNMENT

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BEGC-132: Selections from Indian Writing: Cultural Diversity
Assignment July, 2025 & January, 2026 Sessions
(Based on Blocks 1 – 4)
Course Code: BEGC-132/ 2025-2026

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.
2. 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.

1. 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?

1. c) Once you are used to it

you never afterwards

feel anything.

1. d) Once you are used to it

even the sorrow

that visits you sometimes, in dreams,

melts away, embarrassed.

1. 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?

1. 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.