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Course Detail

Course Name Indian Thought through English
Course Code 23ENG231
Credits 2
Campus Amritapuri ,Coimbatore,Bengaluru, Amaravati, Chennai

Syllabus

Unit 1

Poems

Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali (1-10); Nizzim Ezekiel’s Enterprise; A.K. Ramanujam’s Small-Scale Reflections

on a Great House.

Unit 2

Unit 2 Prose

Khushwant Singh’s The Portrait of a Lady; Jhumpa Lahiri’s Short Story – Interpreter of Maladies.

Unit 3

Drama and Speech

Vijay Tendulkar’s Silence, the Court is in Session; Motivational speeches by Jawaharlal Nehru/ S. Radhakrishnan

/ A. P. J. Abdul Kalam’s My Vision for India etc. (any speech).

Objectives and Outcomes

OBJECTIVES:

 

To expose the students to the greatness of Indian Thought in English; to develop a sense of appreciation for the lofty Indian Thought; to develop an understanding of the eclectic Indian psyche; to develop an understanding about the societal changes in the recent past.

Evaluation Pattern

Evaluation Pattern

 

Assessment Internal End Semester
Periodical 1 (P1) 15
Periodical 2 (P2) 15
*Continuous Assessment (CA) 20
End Semester 50

*CA – Can be Quizzes, Assignment, Projects, and Reports.

Text Books / References

REFERENCES:

  1. Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies, Harper Collins Publications, 2000.
  2. Ramanujan A. K. ed. K. M. George, Modern Indian Literature: An Anthology, Vol. I, Sahitya Akademi,
  3. Singh, The Portrait of a Lady: Collected Stories, Penguin, 2009.
  4. Tagore, Gitanjali, Penguin Books India Pvt. Ltd, 2011.
  5. Tendulkar, Five Plays, Oxford University Press, 1996.

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