Course

Unit 1

Introduction:

Drama : Tragedy & Comedy, Characters, Setting 
Prose: Fiction and Non-Fiction
Life Writing.: Biography, Autobiography, Memoirs

Unit 2

Essays:Shashi Tharoor – A Childs Reading in IndiaSarvepalli Radhakrishnan – Gandhian Outlook

Unit 3

Play: Silence! The Court is in Session’ by Vijay Tendulkar

Unit 4

Non-Detail reading: 

Karma – Khushwant Singh
Kailash Satyarthi’s Nobel Lecture on 10 December 2014 at Oslo City Hall, Norway Of Mothers, among other things. By A.K. Ramanujan

Unit 5

Critical Appreciation and Creative Writing: Class Activity

Unit 6

Critical Appreciation and Creative Writing: Class Activity

Core Reading 

• Habib, M.A.R, Literary Studies, A Norton Guide, Norton & Co, 2020 
• Naik, M.K., A History of Indian English Literature, Sahitya Academy

• To expose the students to various genres of English Literature. 
• To expose the students to Indian English Writing of different timelines. 
• To develop sensibility to read and understand literature and thereby encourage them to be sensitive to the whole spectrum of human experience. 

• Tendulkar, Vijay, Silence! The Court is in Session, Oxford University Press, 1982
• Tharoor, Shashi, A Child’s Reading in India, Washington Post, Dec 1991 
• Gandhi Outlook and Techniques – Ministry of Education, January 1, 1953 
• Singh, Khushwant, Collected Short Stories, Ravi Dayal Publishers, 1989 
• Nobel Lecture – Audio [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNZNbcf5Hd8]