Indian Writing in English — Mock Test 3

Ryan (2020, autistic narrator); Zevin (2022, chronic pain); Venkatraman (2014, a dancer who loses a leg); Sohn (2017, alexithymia).

The Taylors' 'The Star' (1806); Miller (1841); Hale (1830); Martin (1805).

Orijit Sen (The River of Stories, 1994) and Appupen (Moonward, Aspyrus, The Snake and the Lotus). Fuller and Hecht are poets and Monbiot is an environmental journalist.

Love in a Wood (1671) is Wycherley's comedy. The Boys from Syracuse (1938 musical, 1940 film), Do Dooni Chaar (1968) and Gulzar's Angoor (1982) adapt Shakespeare.

Chhinnamul (1950) → Subarnarekha (1965) → Garm Hava (1973) → Tamas (1988) → Khamosh Pani (2003).

The 3 Mistakes of My Life (2008), set in Ahmedabad around the 2001 earthquake and 2002 riots. Five Point Someone became 3 Idiots.

Abhinavagupta (10th–11th century), in the Abhinavabhāratī, argues that śānta is the ninth and basic rasa from which the others arise.

Gour's novel on the singer Janki Bai of Allahabad. Roy won for 2022, Salim for 2018 and Mistry for 2015.

The seven-act play (8th century) dramatises the Uttarakanda: Sita's banishment and the final reunion. Act I opens with the picture gallery and Sita's abandonment, and she shelters with Valmiki, not Vishvamitra.

Note: The play has seven acts; statement A is read as its two movements. Source option 1 printed 'B, E, E only', corrected to 'B, D, E only'.

Vishnusharma teaches three dull princes. The Hitopadesha derives from it, not the reverse; Book I is the jackals Karataka and Damanaka (the friendship of the crow, mouse, tortoise and deer is Book II).

Published 1951 and dedicated 'to the memory of the British Empire in India'. It covers his early life in East Bengal and Calcutta up to 1921.

Aurobindo (1872) → Sarojini Naidu (1879) → Venkataramani (1891) → Narayan (1906) → Raja Rao (1908).

'Thanda Gosht' (Partition riots), 'Jila-Watan' (exile and displacement) and 'Lajwanti' (recovered abducted women). 'Gharwali' is about a maidservant-wife, and 'Rudali' about professional mourners in rural Rajasthan.

Untouchable (1935) → Twilight in Delhi (1940) → Tomorrow Is Ours (1943) → Distant Drum (1960) → Azadi (1975).

Note: The source prints item C as 'A Distant Dream'; Malgonkar's 1960 novel is Distant Drum.

Kanthapura (1938) → So Many Hungers! (1947) → All About H. Hatterr (1948) → Music for Mohini (1952) → Waiting for the Mahatma (1955).

From Heaven Lake (1983, travel through Tibet); The Masque of Africa (2010); Knife (2024, on the 2022 attack); The Lowland (2013).

Pattanaik (2018); Amish (Ram Chandra series, 2022); Kané (2019); Neelakantan (2013).

Lal Singh Dil (Punjabi poet); Urmila Pawar (Aaydan); Tulsi Ram (Murdahiya); Devanur Mahadeva (Kusumabale).

Kartography (2002) and Desirable Daughters (2002) → The Namesake (2003) → The Inheritance of Loss (2006) → The Last Queen (2021).

Bhimayana (2011, Gond art by Durgabai and Subhash Vyam); Munnu (2015); This Side, That Side (2013).

Mukha → Pratimukha → Garbha → Avamarsha (Vimarsha) → Nirvahana.

The Problem of the Rupee (1923) → Annihilation of Caste (1936) → Federation versus Freedom (1939) → Mr. Gandhi and the Emancipation of the Untouchables (1943) → The Buddha and His Dhamma (1957).

The Fatel Razack reached the Gulf of Paria on 30 May 1845 with about 225 people from Calcutta; 30 May is Indian Arrival Day in Trinidad and Tobago.

NEP 2020 (para 22.14) proposes an Indian Institute of Translation and Interpretation (IITI), not an institute of English literature.

Amrutara Santana (1947), on the Kondh tribe, is Gopinath Mohanty's (Jnanpith 1973). Pratibha Ray's tribal novel is Adibhumi, on the Bondos.