BEGC-132 Solved Assignment 2025-26

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IGNOU BEGC-132 Solved Assignment 2025-26

BA English General Programme
(BAG)
ASSIGNMENT
(For July, 2025 and January, 2026 Sessions)
(BEGC 132)
Selections from Indian Writing: Cultural Diversity

BEGC-132: Selections from Indian Writing: Cultural Diversity
Assignment July, 2023 & January, 2024 Sessions
(Based on Blocks 1 – 4)
This assignment is split up into three sections: A, B and
C Attempt all the questions.
Course Code: BEGC-132/ 2025-2026
Max. Marks: 100
Section A
1. Answer, with reference to the context, any four of the following. 10×4 =40
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.
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?
c) Once you are used to it
you never afterwards
feel anything.
d) Once you are used to it
even the sorrow
that visits you
sometimes, in dreams,
melts away, embarrassed.
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?
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. 10
3. What is the alternative perspective that the Chandrabati Ramayana offers? Why is it important? 10

Section C
4. What do you understand by silenced text? Explain with reference to the text prescribed in your
syllabus. 20
5. How do Dalit narratives tell the stories of an entire community? Elaborate. 20

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