MEG-07 Indian English Literature - Syllabus outline

 

Poetry

 

Henry Derozio

        The Harp of India   

        To India - my native land

Toru Dutt

         Sita

         The Lotus   

        Our Casuarina Tree

Sri Aurobindo

        A Tree
        Life and Death
        Bride of Fire
        The Golden Light

Sarojini Naidu
        Indian Dancers
        Love and Death
        The Old Woman

Nissim Ezekiel
        Enterprise
        Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher
        Background, Casually

 

KamaIa Das
        An Introduction
        My Grandmother's House
        The Sunshine Cat

 

A. K. Ramanujan
        Looking for a Cousin on a Swing
        Self Portrait
        A River

 

Jayanta Mahapatra
        Dawn at Puri
        Indian Summer Poem
        Hunger
        Evening Landscape by the River

Arun Kolatkar
        The Bus
        The Low Temple
        Chaitanya

Keki N. Daruwalla
        Rumination
        Routine
        Crossing of Rivers

 

 

Short Story

 

R.K.Narayan

        An Astrologer's Day

        Engine Trouble 

 

Arun Joshi 

        The Only American from Our Village

Manoj Das 

          A Trip into the Jungle 

 

Shashi Despande
        The Miracle

 

Githa Hariharan
        Gajar Halwa

 

Ruskin Bond
        No Room for A Leopard
        Copperfield In The Jungle
        An Island of Trees

 

Drama

Mahesh Dattani: Tara

 

 

Fiction

Mulk Raj Anand: Untouchable

Raja Rao: Kanthapura

Anita Desai: Clear Light of Day

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

 

 

Non-Fictional Prose

Is India civilized?  by aurobindo

 

Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule  by Mahatma Gandhi

 

An Autobiography by Jawaharlal Nehru

 

The Autobiography of an UnknownIndian
Thy Hand, Great Anarch by Nirad C. Chaudhuri