APPENDIX 1 THE FIFTIES AND SIXTIES 1 Brander, L ( e d ) 1954 Porlrarl of the Presenr Madras OUP, rpt 1964 CONTENTS SI. No. I 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 II I2 13 14 15 16 17 Title Author THE BACKGROUND E M Fonter F S Smythe Leonard Woolf PEOPLE At School and College Jawaharlal N e h ~ Golng Up to Oxford S I Ernest ~ Baker My Famlly Rablndranath Tagore How l became a Publlc Speaker Bernard Shaw D H Lawrence Mmmg Country STORIES The Cossacks Joseph Conrad king People Off S I Max ~ Beerbohm Prmcess September Somerset Maugham In the Forest Walter de la Marc THOUGHT AND S P W T Tlme and the Machme Aldous Huxley The Sc~ent~fic Po~ntof Vlew J B S Haldane A Problem m Nature Sir Charles Shemngton Ideas that have helped Manklnd Bemand Russell The B~rthof Stars Fred Hoyle Page No. lnd~aAgaln Kamet Conquered The Jungle 2 Sharma, D C (ed ) 1954 Representalive Englrsh Essays Bombay Blaclue & son ( I n d ~ a ) L ~ m t t e drpt , 1970 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 II 12 13 14 15 16 DESCRIPTIVE ESSAYS Charles D~ckens Rab~ndranathTagore Jim Corben H~lalre&Iloc Dr S Radhaknshanan Henry Dav~dThorcau REFLECTIVE ESSAYS OnLlberty John Stuart Mill lndlan Vlew of Llfe Max Muller The C ~ v ~ l ~ z aof t ~To-day on C E M load Sclf-Culture Samuel Smtles Econom~cVenus Moral Progress Mahatma Gandh~ The Sucsur of Non-v~olence lawaharlal N e b LIFE AND LETTERS B o o h and L~brar~es James Russell Lowell The Peal of Bells Robert Lynd On Lener Wntlng Alpha of the Plough The Bvlh of the Aeroplane C L M Bmwn Journey to N~agara My Llfe The Brothen The Mowlng of a Fleld Gautama The Buddha What l L~vcdFor I II 27 40 52 63 73 83 95 103 117 126 137 149 157 163 17 Our Home ln Space 18 The Place of Sc~encem a Liberal Educat~on Slr J a m u Jeans Bertrand Ruuell 3 Macnlcol, R S (ed.) 1959 Gareways ro Prose and Poetry Madras OUP,rpt 1994 I 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 II 12 13 14 STORIES Charles Lamb Kenneth Grahame Kathmne Mansfield O F REAL LIFE S u Isaac Newton Nathaniel Hawthorne The Conquest of Malana T C Bndges & H H Tllman Cross~ngthe D e w A W Kmglake The Commg of Gandhl Jawaharlal Nehru An Englishman's Fvst Lmpress~ons Walter Rale~gh of l n d ~ a Worldly W~sdom The Earl of Chesterfield ESSAYS AND SKETCHES Kunwar Smgh Jun Corbett The Man ln Black Ol~verGoldsm~th A Convenat~onw ~ t ha Cat Hllaue Belloc On the Rule of the Road A G Gardmer Forgen~ng Robert Lynd U l y s ~ and s the Cyclops The Burglars Her Fvst Ball 4 U M I , M R (ed ) 1963 Gleanrngs From Englrsh Prose Madras Asian Book Company, rpc 1973 I 2 3 4 5 6 ESSAYS A G Gardmer Max B&hm Robm Lynd E V Lucas SPEECHES Some Hmts On Publ~cSpeaklng James Bryce Sarojm~N a ~ d u Jawaharlal N e h ~ On a Pr~sonerof War Sec~ngPeople Off Pocket Money The Lord of L ~ f e I 5 II 17 22 29 BIOGRAPHY Johnson At School James Boswell 8 Wlth Gokhale M K Gandhl 9 1 Resolve to Become a Jungle Doctor Albert Schwcltur FICTION 10 Jack Eacy at the Bottom of a Well Captam Marryat I I The Selfish Glant Oscar Wllde 12 The Child's RehM Rablndranath Tagore SCIENCE 13 The Influence of Science Andr?.de and Jul~anHuxley 7 5.Sharma. D C. (ed ) 1965, Srlver Streams Bangalore: The 1978. 34 40 45 51 58 64 74 P.T.1 Book Company; rpt ESSAYS I 2. Of Sllver Paper The Money-Box E V Lucas Robot Lynd I 4 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 II I2 13 14 15 16 The Samphlre Gatherer W H Hudson All About a Dog A G Gard~ner Travel By Tram J B Prrestley CIVILIZATION AND CULTURE A Talk on C ~ v ~ l ~ z a l r o n C E M load Shant~nrkem C F Andrews SHORT STORIES The Cabul~wailah Rab~ndranathTagore The Model Mrll~onaue Oscar W~lde The Verger W Somerset Maugham SPORT AND ADVENTURE Cr~cket Nev~lleCardus The End of the Boat Jowney S s Ernest Shackleton SPEECHES The Funct~onof Unrversrt~es Jawaharlal Nchru Fust Annlvenary of Gandhijl's Death C Rajagopalachan SCIENCE Leonardo Da V I ~ C I From One Hundred Grear L w a Alexander Flcmmg P h ~ l ~Cane p From Grants of Scrence 6 Kumar, Shlv and M M Bhalla (eds ) 1966 Englrsh Prose Selecrrons Calcutta Onent Longrnan, rpt 1989 I 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 I1 I2 I3 14 15 16 BIOGRAPHICAL J B Ne~lson Jawaharlal Nehru ADVENTURE The Bachelor of Powalgarh J~rnCorbea The Avalanche Maur~ceHenog FICTION The Purple Jar Mana Edgewonh The Happy Prmce Oscar W~lde Jane Austen Mr Collms HUMOUR Engmc Trouble R K Narayan A Mad Tea-Party Lewrs Carroll SCIENCE Man m Space Max Hammenon Man m the Future B ~ l lWrllrams LITERATURE AND CIVILIZATION A D~alogueon C ~ v ~ l u a t r o n C E M Joad The Grfi of Language J G B~ton The Rule of the Road A G Gardtner Rcsdlng for Pleasure L A G Strong On Readlng In Relaoon to Literature Lrfcndto Hearn Socrates Ashoka 7 Knshnarnurt~,R (cd ) 1966 Selectrons From E M Forster Madras: Macrnillan and Co Limited; rpt 1986 I 2 3 4 5 Notes on the English Character MyWood Hymn before Act~on Tolcmce The Challenge of our Tlme 6 7 8 9 10 II I2 I3 14 I5 16 What l Belleve The Duty of Society to the Anlst Does Culture Matter? Voltalre and Frcdcr~ckthe Great A Book that Influenced Me Syed Ross Masood InMyL~brary l n d ~ aAgaln The Other S ~ d of e the Hedge "East and West (from A Parsage to lndra) The Story (from Aspects o j l k Novel) 8 Samuel, M S (ed ) 1966 Llvrng English Madras Macrn~llan,rpt I Manhandled m South Afnca 2 Kunwar S ~ n g h 3 Mane C u r ~ e 4 The An of L~vlng On the Rule of the Road 5 6 7 Gr~zclC o c h m e The Cop and the Anthem BIOGRAPHY M K Gandhl ADVENTURE Jim Corben SCIENCE E H Caner LIGHT ESSAYS Sir Harold N~colson A G Gardmer SHORT STORIES J M W~lson 0 Henry 9 CIEFL (Hyderabad) (cd ) 1967 Language rhrough Llrerature I 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 II 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 The Flve K ~ n d of s Workers Song An Excellent Father Fetch~ngthe Doctor Sueamllnlng My Dog Marcus Co-operat~on The Man from Mars Courage The School for Sympathy A Vls~tto the Moon My Flnanclal Career The Never-Never Nest A G ~ f for i Chnshnas An lnterv~ew On Bemg Measured for a Sult of Clothes L ~ f eand Leamlng P ~ t ythe Nat~on Testament Madras OUP Row and Wren N ~ k oTmbergen Jane Austen Garland and Heath C Bevers Colln Howard Rab~ndranathTagore Norman Hoss The Mother E V Lucas S a James Jeans Stephen Leacock Ccdnc Mount 0 Henry hchard Gordon Robcn Lynd G B Shaw Kahl~lG ~ b m Jawahvlal Nchru 10 Mlshra, N. K. (ed.) 1968 The Charm of Englrsh Prose Madras Macm~llan;rpt. 1984. I 2 Packmg Telcphonics I. IN LIGHTER VEIN Jemrne K Jemme E V Lucas 1 6 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 II 12 13 14 I5 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 11. SPORTS AND ADVENTURE A Football Match John Dr~nkwater Cr~ckct Nev~lleCardus The End of the Mohan Man-Eater Jim Corben An Amrnunlt~onTram In Greece Peter Flem~ng 111. LETTERS AND SPEECHES Books and Life Lord Chesterfield A Tr~butc T E Lawrence A Call to Youth S Radhaknshnan Opponun~tyfor Youth Jawaharlal Nehru I V THE SHORT STORY Once There Was a Klng Rablndranath Tagore The Man of the House Frank 0' Connor Mrs Adu She~laKayc-Sm~th V. THE 'ELEGANT TRIFLE' The Story of the Man ~nBlack Ollver Goldsm~th On Tnvel by Tram J B hestley All AboutaDog A G Gardmer C~garcttePlctures Roben Lynd VI. LIVING THOUGHTS The Need for Relrglon M K Gandhl My Duty to My Nelghbour Ernest Barker The Sc~ent~fic Pomt of Vim J B S Haldane Sc~mccand Soclcty J Bronowsk~ MI. READING AND WRITING On Readmg Books Vlrgmla Woolf How to Wnte Well C E M Joad l l Dhavale. V N and W V Venkat Rao (eds ) 1969 A Desrgn for Readrng N e w D e l h Macmlllan l n d ~ a L~m~ted I 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 II 12 13 14 I5 16 17 A. ESSAYS Max Bnrbohm J B hestley LCCNES The &st Years of Llfe Sir Orben S~twell B. BIOGRAPHY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY Reflcct~onson My Elghtleth Buthday BerUand Russell Sc~enccStudent ln London H G Wells C. SHORT STORIES An Asbuloger's Day R K Namyan The Lart Leaf 0 Henry Acme John Galswonhy D.TRAVEL Return to lnd~a Santha Rama Rau Vtrlt to the Pagodas Somerset Maugham E. SPORT Coun Clnular c ~ nRay l A V~lIageCrtckef Match A G Macdonell F. SCIENCE AND L I F E How T h m p Fit in wlth One Another Magnus Pyke The Sc~sntmst'sRcspons~btl~ty E W T~ttenon The Rel~g~on of the Future Bernard Shaw The Purmg o f the Poa Stephen Leacock Human Needs J B S Haldane speed 71 78 THE SEVENTIES I 2 Green, Davtd (ed ) 1971 I n d t a (P ) L t d Conremporary Engl~shProse Madras T h e M a c m i l l a n Co o f Spoken Engl~sh Thts Beaut~fulWorld of Ours A Voyage to England A Day's Wait Sweeu for Angels Destiny and the Bullet Wtth the Photographer Shootlng an Elephant An lntervlew Looktng Back on Elghty Years A Fug~ttveSeeks Refuge The Changtng World Sennd~ptty A F'rcs~dentSpeaks An Hlstortan In lndls Rab~ndranathTagore The Kmg of a Great Game G Bernard Shaw Jawaharlal Nehru V S Srlnlvasa Sasvy Ernest Hemingway R K Narayan Gerald Kersh Stephen Leacock George h e l l Hany Sootln Somerset Maugham Wlnston S Churchlll G C Thornley Water B Cannon John F Kennedy Arnold 1 Toynbee E H Carter A G Gardiner 13 S r ~ v a s t a v aA K ( e d ) 1 9 7 1 Prose for Pleasure M a d r a s B l a c l u e & S o n (Indra) L ~ m t e d , rpt 1 9 7 5 I 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 II I2 13 14 BIOGRAPHY M K Gandh~ Rnbtndranath Tagore NARRATIVE AND DESCRIlTIVE PROSE Orpheus and Euryd~ce S u George Wtlltam Cox Shant~ntkeran C F Andrews The Prtnces Ftnd a Teacher Flora Ann~eSteel A Wood by the Sea W H Hudson My Ftnanctal Career Stephen Leacock Tree-Men of Travancon Rostra Forbes Dr Southpon Vulpcs's Nighmare Bemand Russell ADVENTURE The Conquest of Everest Str Edmund Htllary Hunt~ngBtg Game wtth the Camera RcdclytTe Dugmore SCIENCE AND CIVILIZATION Food J B S Haldane A Dtalogue on Ctvtl~zatton C E M load Landlng on the Moon Apollo XI Pabtck M o o n At school My Boyhood 1 4 K ~ n g S, t e u a r t H. ( e d ) 1 9 7 1 L t m ~ t e d r; p t 1 9 9 5 . I 2 3 4 5 I 9 20 27 33 38 47 52 62 72 81 90 100 I09 New V~slarIn Engllsh Prose B o m b a y B l a c k ~ e& Son ( I n h a ) The Klng m d the Doctors My Lost Dollar Ant and the Grasshopper Engine Trouble The Spontng Spmt Bernard Shaw Stephen Leacock W S Maugham R K Narayan George Omell The Paradox of Hollywood Fue and the H e m of Man Concern~ngDates The Magn~ficentCompuls~on The King of a Great Game Exper~mentand Exper~mce The Stars An Ideal lndlvldual What 1s Culture' What I Cher~shMost The Emcrglng World Society J B Pr~estley S s John Squ~re E V Lucas Theodore Berland A G Gard~ner W R N~blen George Santayana Bertrand Rusxll Jawaharlal Nehm V S Snnivasa Sasby S Radhakr~shnan 1 5 G a u s d e n , M W ( e d ) 1 9 7 1 Llfe and L~lerarure. Madras M a c r n ~ l l a n ,rpt 1 9 7 8 The Image The Hone A Talk Exploring Space Under Flre The Goat and the Stars The Day after Tomorrow HIS F ~ n Flight t Ups and Downs Truth and Ah~mra On an Offer or S10.000 The Man Who Knew Too Much Two Engllsh Lessons Choos~nga Career My Lost Dollar W~thoutGlasses The Unlversitlcs Have Much to Teach Us R K Narayan Rablndranath Tagore C E M Joad Sullivan Navln Laurence Housman H E Bates James Hemrnlng L~arnO'Flaheny E V Lucas M K Gandht Alpha of the Plough Alexander Baron Sommet Maugham John Dnnkwater Stephen Leacock Robm Lynd Jawaharlal Nehru 16 Soar, Adnan ( e d ) 1 9 7 2 The Language of Communrcarron M a d r a s T h e Macrnlllan Co of I n d i a L t r n ~ t e d ,rpt 1 9 7 4 T ~ m eAnd Act~on In the Confess~onal The WoRh1p of the Wealthy On Umbrella Morals Quality Man and Superman Book-Buymg The Mnpc of Words In R a r x of Normal Woman Return to Nahuc The Role of Y w t h m Modern lndla Knowledge and W i d o m The Metboda of Science An lntewlew with Dwight Aldous Huxley R K Narayan G K Chestcrton A G Gardlner John Galswolthy Bernard Shaw AugusUne B~rrcll Lord Blrken J B hestley Henry m v l d Thoreau J Nehru & m d Rwll H N Saunden D E~xnhower 17. Andrcws, George V. (ed.) 1972. Prosefor Language Learning Cochin: Paco Publishing House. I 2 3 Some Rem~n~scencer of the Bar The Alr We Llve In Hunted by Bloodhounds 4 The Legend of Princes Flutterhall 5 Forgenlng 6 Thelr Flnest Hour 7 Packmg 8 The Reason 9 A Clear Style 10 A Retrieved Reformat~on I I How l Became a Publlc Spealter I2 Those People Next Door 13 The Alms of Educsl~on M K Gandh~ Llncoln Barnen Charles Reade Egon Larxn Robm Lynd Wlnston Church~ll Jerome K Jerome E V Lucas Somerset Maugham 0 Henry Bernard Shaw A G Gardlner Sir Richard L~vmgstone 18 Menon, K P K (ed ) 1973 Selected Prosejor Degree Clarses Madras The Macmillan Co of Ind~aLlm~ted,rpt 1975 On Hab~ts On Runnlng after One's Hat Wlndow Vlew Different lns~de An Episode from Dr Cmnm's Medlcal Camer The L o b s Eater Our Own C ~ v ~ l ~ z a t ~ o n The Sportmg Spmt Educat~onand the Tramrng of Character On Parents and Ch~ldren Llleraturc and Science Comfon The Happy Man The Polnt of V ~ e w What l Bel~eve A G Gardlner G K Chestenon Roben Lynd J B Restley A J Cmnln W Somerset Maugham C E M Jod George Omell Snr kchard Llvlngstonc Ernest Barker John M~ddletonMurry Aldous Huxley Bemand Russell A C Benson E M Forster [EFL (Hyderabad) (ed ) 1975 Language Through Literature II Calcutta O W Out of Busmess Can We Stop Earthquakes? Prankster of the sea 4 Old Man at the Bndge 5 A Vls~tto the Andamans 6 The Power of Women 7 Ronald Ross How a Cllent was Saved 8 A Scrdmble among the Taglns 9 10 The Nlght the Ghost Got In I I Among the Head-Hunters 12 Acres per Head. Heads per Acre I 2 3 R K Narayan from World ofwonder Jack Denton Scott Ernest Hemlngway S w s h Va~dya R~chardGordon S G Crowther M K Gandh~ V w l e r Elwm James Thurbcr Richard Hallbutton Ertc h f f e y 20. Varadarajan, A. E.and S.Jagadsan (eds.) 1975. lnvitntron to English Prose Bombay Orient Longman; rpt. 1977 Mano Majra Hams In the Marc The Last Letter to lnd~ra The Man who Saved Pumpelsdrop Edusstlon for New lndla The Verger All about a Dog No Man IS an Island The Smile Our Own C ~ v ~ l ~ l a t ~ o n Crlme and Punishment Third Thoughtr A D~alogueon Democracy Khushwant Smgh Jerome K Jerome Jawaharlal Nehru W J Turner C Rajagopalacharl Somerset Maugham A G Gardlner Mtnoo Masan1 Ray Bradbury C E M Joad R K Narayan E V Lucas A S Hornby 2 1 Bhaskcr. W W S and N S Prabhu (eds ) 1975 English Through Readmg, Volume I Madras Macmlllan C l v ~ l ~ z a t ~and o n History The Fun They Had Big Numbers and Infmlttes 011 An Observation and an Explanat~on A Robot about the House A Wrong Man In Workers' Paradtse Maklng Surgery Safe Ustng Land Wlsely The Karburator C E M Joad Isaac Aslmov George Gamow G C Thornley Desmond Morris M W Thnng Tagore Horace Shlpp L Dudley Stamp K m l Capek 22 Knshnamwthy, B R (ed ) 1976 Prose ofToday (Calicur Editron) Bombay Macm~llan I 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 II I2 13 14 I5 16 Leela's Frlend A Conversation with a Render Ramanujan On Saylng 'Please' Mahatma Gandhl Somelhmg for Nothlng On Betnga Bore The Barber's Trade Unlon The Banle of Freedom IS Over The Muter F~lrnsfor the People Cranks The 91g Thlngs Are Not Really B1g Thmgs A P a r of Sandals M w u r m g Human N a d s The Call of the Suffcnng R K Narayan Hllalre Bclloc C P Snow A G Gardlner v S SMIVLS~Sash')' Ernest Hemmgway Roben Lynd Mulk Rsj Anand Samjtnl Naldu Gmrge Omell J Nehru Bertrand Russell Dr Southam 23 Muthlah, V. S . (ed.) 1976. Modern Prose Selectronr Madras: B.I.Publlcabons;rpt. 1978. I 2 3 What arc Flowen for? The Complete Man 1 Thought About 'lhir Girl Joseph Wood KNtch Rlnce Phlllp, Jerome Weldman The Wh~teFlower R K Narayan Careless At Last J B Prlestlcy The Eternal Silence of these N~radC Chaudhun lnfin~teCrowds Clrcuses S s Harold N~colson Bapu Jawaharlal Nehru A Lener from Sarojln~Na~du Sarojlnl Na~du to Jawaharlal Nehm Arthur Ma~ley Neville Cardus On Magnanlm~ly C P Snow An Absurdly C o m ~ cCreature' A J Cron~n The Development of lndran L~terature C Rajagopalachan 24 Thomas, C T (ed ) 1977 Prose for Communlcarlon New Delh~ S Chand & Company Ltd I 2 3 4 Indta's GI&to the World My L ~ f e G ~ r Against l the Jungle On Not Answenng the Telephone 5 Gaternan's GI& 6 A Defence of Shyness 7 The Forb~ddenLand 8 Freedom 9 lmpress~onof lndta 10 Sclence, Humanlt~esand Rel~glon I I Fear of Publ~cOpm~on Pomt of V ~ e w I2 The Sc~ent~fic LOUISFzscher Rab~ndranathTagore Jul~aneKoepckc W ~ l l ~ aPlorner m R K Narayan Harold N~colson R Motson Thompson George Bernard Shaw Ju11an Huxley S Radhaknshnan Bemand Russell J B S Haldane 25 Shahane, V A (ed ) 1978 Mosa~cModern Englrsh Prose Madras Macmlllan; rpt 1980 On D o ~ n gNoth~ng Argulng Is there a Gentle man m the Houseq Educat~onand the Tralnlng of Character Notes on the Engl~shCharacter The Secret of Work Ph~losophyfor Laymen The Case of the Wayward Words How to Name a Dog Machlnes The Populat~onBomb Beyond Freedom and Dlgn~ly Sc~enceand Sens~bll~ty L~fe'sF'h~losophy G a n d h ~Through the Fue J B Pr~estley Robert Lynd Russell Lynes R~chardL~vmgstone E M Fonter swam^ Vlvekananda Bcmand Rusxll W m n Weaver Junes Thurber George Owell P R Ehrl~ch B F Skmer Jacob Bmnowsk~ Jawaharlal Nehru Knshn. Kr1palan1 26 Keshava Kurup, P.N and B. Ardhaharceswaran (eds ) 1978. New Patterns ofContempormy Prose Madras. Macm~llan;rpt. 1982. 1 2 The Motherland's Call to Youth SyedRoss M d S Radhaknshnan E M Forster What IS Democracy? The K I ~ W r ~ t ~ na gStory--One Man's Way Mr Know-All The Challenge of Everest Shot Down 9 The Lure of Space 10 A Most Forglv~ngApe I I Rabtndranath Tagore I2 Nobel Lecture 13 intellectual Rubblsh 14 Futurology 3 4 5 6 7 8 Maurlce Cranston Charl~eChapltn Frank O'Connor Somenet Maugham H P S Ahluwal~a R~chardH~llary Isaac Astmov Alan Mwrehead Hallam Tennyson Saul Bellow Berband Russell Aldous Huxley THE EIGHTIES 27 S~vasankaran, T (ed ) 1980 Modern Prose Parrerns Madras Macm~llan;rpt 1991 I 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 II I2 13 14 And Then Gandh~Came Does Culture Mancr? A CupofTea Hunt~ngfor a Job Llfe Can be Worth Llvmg The lnd~spensablcOppostt~on The Funct~onsof a Teacher Trams Technology wtth a Human Face Into the Unknown C h r ~ s t ~ aClvll~zat~on n Charles Chapl~n The Day the Dam Bmkc The F ~ n Four t Mmutes Jawaharlal Nehru E M Fonter Katherine Mansfield E R Bra~thwa~te Jul~anHuxley Walter L~ppmann Bemand Russell Robert Lynd E F Schumacher Peter Greave N~radC Chaudhurl LOUISUntermeyer James Thurber Roger Banntster 28 Raj, Sundar C R (ed ) 1980 English Prose for Advanced Shlls Madras Blackie & Son Publishers Pvt Ltd , rpt 1984 German Harry Advantages of Anonymlly A Day m the Country A Dual Personaltry The Artlst Where Fnends Fall Span~shBullfight Hazards of Sensual Drugs Weather Explorers of Arabla Max Muellcr's Early L ~ f cat a Gennan Univcn~ty Synthcs~sis our T n d ~ t ~ o n Somerset Maugham R K Narayan Don Jacobson Anne F d Shtga Naoya Forrest R e ~ d Al~stauCooke Hardm B Jones C V Raman Zahra F m t h & Vlctor Wmstone N ~ n dChaudhun Jawahatlal Nehru 29 Jan, Man~uand Francis B. Smgh (eds.) 1981. To@ Modern Prosefor College Students New Delhi: Macmillan. . PROBLEMS O F TODAY The Ilks Lewls Thomas Red R~bbonon a White Hone W H Auden Men and Learning Edmund Leach My Wood E M Forster 5 Buddhlst Economics E F Schumacher 11. ART IN TODAY'S WORLD 6 Love and An Erlch Fromm 7 The Duty of Soc~etylo the A n ~ s t E M Forster 8 G~tanjal~ W B Yeats 9 What IS Wrong wlth lndlan Films? Satyaj~tRay 111. INDIA TODAY 10 Students' Shame M K Gandh~ I I Engl~shIn lndla The Rocess of R K Narayan Transmutahon I2 The Kalka Mall for S ~ m l a Paul Theroux 13 Kota and Bundl V S Na~paul 14 Rel~g~on. Philosophy and Sclence Jawaharlal Nehru I 2 3 4 30 E d t t o r 198 1 Prose Selectlorn ( I Semester) Madras Umvers~tyof Madras A Conversat~onw ~ t ha Reader In and out of Bed Matches On Runn~ngafter one's Hat The Post Master Boswell meets Johnson for the Flnt Tlme An Appeal to the Nat~on The V o ~ c cof l n d ~ a Hllalre Belloc Robert Lynd E V Lucas G K Chcstenon Rnb~ndranathTagore James Boswell Sir Wlnston Churchill Jawaharlal Nchru 3 1 Chakravarty, T K (ed ) 1982 Varretres ofModern Englrsh Prose New Delhl S Chand & C o m p a n y L t d , rpt 1986 Terror The Gurkha Sold~er My Anceslon The English Ldnguage Readmg and Dixnmmat~on Woman Cullure The G r m C ~ t y Mohandas Kanmchand Gandhl The O p p o m n m m Evoluuon The Overstmulated lnd~v~dual Spoon Fcedmg Keform or Rum of Culture? An Educated Person H u Man a Future? A Strange Expcrlence The Sage of T w g m and Seven Old Seekers The Auspic~ousVislon Jim Corben John Masters Lausens Van Der Post A C Baugh Dcnys Thompson G K Chestenon K M Munsh~ Nlrad C Chaudhury Larry Collins and D o m ~ n ~ q uLaplcm e George Gaylwd Slmpson Alvm Toffler W R lnge Stephen Spznder Hamld Nlcolson Bereand Russell Swam1 Agehananda Bharah Manoj Das 19 A Bapt~sm 20 Old Man at the Br~dgc Gtovann~Guarescht Ernest Hemlngway 32 Ramarao, Vlrnala (ed ) 1 9 8 2 Current Prose for Befrer Learnrng Madras Macmillan, rpt 1988 I 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 I0 II I2 33 Cinderella Vtvckananda's World Mlss~on Wtth the Photographer Rall~ll, My Husband The Lesson of the Seagull The Best Investment I Ever Made Gal~leoand the Telescope A Nafton'r Strength Search for a Stranger A Snake In the Grass At School A Rare Flsh Retold by Anhur Rackham Bhaban~Bhanacharya Stephen Lcacock VtjayahkShml Pand~t Claude Met~er-DINunz~o A J Cronln Wllllam and Stella Ntda Karan Slngh Gordon S Ltvtngstone R K Narayan M K Gandht Thor Heyerdahl . Thaker, P K S D Dew, and T J Puraru (eds ) 1 9 8 2 Developrng Engl~shShlls Calcutta OUP, rpt 1 9 8 9 A Chat wtth Mrs Smllcs A D~ff~cult Customer Lovers' Reunron What' No Books' Qutcksand Blood, Toll Sweat and Tears The Conjuror's Revenge A Snake In the Grass The Topaz Cumlnks Mystery Letter to lndu Ftfteen Paces Dolly at the Dentist's A Sense of the Future A T h ~ esf Story W R Lee W R Lee D H Spencer Anonymous Max Gunther Sir Wlnston Churchlll Stephen Leacock R K Narayan James Thurber Jawaharlal N e h ~ Alan Dav~dson G B Shaw J Bronowsk~ Ruskm Bond 34 Joscph, A (ed ) 1 9 8 3 CommunrrafionThrough English Madras AsIan Book Company I 2 3 4 Spoon Feedlng A Surgeon Exammes Acupuncnvc Pomalt of G a n d h ~ j ~ The Art of understandmg other people 5 The Indapensable Oppos~t~on 6 Our Vital Hentage of Nature 7 The Selfish G ~ m t 8 The Lunits of Human Power 9 Educat~onm The Future Ten= 10 On B a n g Seventy W R lnge 1 Dr M~chaelDe Bakey w ~ t hDon Schanche 10 Will Durant 21 Clarence Hall 30 Walter L~ppmann 38 L a m n c e Elllot 49 Oscar Wllde 58 B e m d Russell 69 Alvm Toffler 79 W Somerset Maugham 90 35 Prabhaker, T. (cd.) 1 9 8 3 A New Antholog), of Enghsh Prose Madras. Emerald Publtshers. I 2 3 Better Late Vlctlms of the Atom Blasu The Mournen 4 In Rlson 5 George Bernard Shaw 6 The PlaneCrssh 7 What IS Science? 8 On Mmlages 9 l Have a Dream 10 Unlvers~tyDays I I Sclence and CulNre I2 A V I S Ito~ lndla 13 Advertlslng R K Narayan Takashl Nagal & Tamlk~Hara V S Na~paul Jawaharlal Nehm Bertrand Russell Jullane Koepcke George Onvell Nlrad Chaudhun Martin Luther Krng James Thurber Laurence M Gould Jullan Huxley W A Evans 36 Antony, E C (ed ) 1984 A Taste ofGood Prose Bombay Blaclue & Son Publ~shersFv' t Ltd 1 The Face of Judas My Eccentric Guests My Greatest Olymplc Pnze 4 Valiant V~cky.The Brave Weaver 5 My Fortune 6 U n ~ v c n ~Days ly 7 The Sniper 8 Charmed World of The Arablan Nlghts 9 The Pomalt of a Lady 10 The Qu11lndla Revolt 2 3 I I The Conjurer's Revenge 12 My Quest For Love 13 M ~ a w 14 This 1s The Jungle Iscanot Bonn~eChamberlln Ruskln Bond Jesse Owens Flora Annre StKl J B Pncstley Jarncs Thurber L~arnO'Flaherty Ernest Hauser Khushwant Slngh Blpm Chandra. Amales T r ~ p a t h ~ Banrn Le Stephen Leacock R K Narayan Vldyadhar Pundallk Kenneth Andenon 37 Department of Engllsh, Osmanla Unlverslty, Hyderabad (ed ) 1984 Selecrronsfrorn English Prose & Poetry for Colleges, rpt 199 1 1 2 3 On Shakmg Hands T h e T o m Week Knowledge and Wlsdom 4 Florence Nlghtlngale 5 Dynarnlc Life On Style, Orlglnal~tyand lntegrlty 6 7 Comfon 8 University Days 9 Is Progress Real? 10 Father's Help I I Ihe T c f h n o l o g l ~ lEnglne A G Gardlner E V Lucar Bemand Rusxll Lyrton S m h e y Jawaharlal Nehru Sldney Cox Aldous Huxley James Thwbcr Will and Anel Durant R K Nanyln Alvrn Toffer 38 Sivadasan, C. P. (ed.) 1985 Modern Prose for Colleges Madras:Emerald Publishers. I Our Unlvenitles 2 VmobaBhavc Jawrharlal Nchru John Spencer 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 II 12 13 14 I5 The New lndla How l &came a Publtc Speaker The Lton and the h b Pleasures What I Requln from L ~ f e The Btnh of the Aeroplane The Turning Poln! of My L ~ f e My Educatton Bacteria Tammg the Atom The Race Gotng to the Clnema Thc Golden Age of Cr~ckct Chester Bowlcs Bernard Shaw Leonard Clark Aldous Huxley J B S Haldane C L M Brown A J Cronln Bwkcr T Washtngton Wlillam and Stclle N ~ d a Nav~nSullivan F D Ommanney Andrew Buchanan Nevtlle Cardus 39 Sebast~an,D K (ed ) 1985 Prose For The Young Reader Madras Macrmllan, rpt 1988 I 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Watcr-The Ellxa of L ~ f e Journey to N t a g a On Lener Wrltmg M n Packlet~de'sTtger The Cat A Deed of Bravery Our Ctvtltzauon Food 9 Pele's Thousandth Goal 10 A Hero on Robatton I I Dangers of Drug Abuse 12 Our Anccston C V Rarnan Charles D~ckcns Alpha of the Plough 'Sakl' Katharine M Wllson Jim Corben C E M Joad J B S Haldane Pele wtth R L Flsh B R Nanda Hardm B Jones Carl Sagan 40 Panlkkar, A K C (ed ) 1985 A Garland of Prose Madras Macmillan, rpt 1986 My Lord, the Baby A Ctty N~ght-p~ecc Vtnoba Bhave The Man who Walked 15.000 Mlles Thc Fust Meetmg betwan Mahatma Gandht and Lord Mountbanen The Panorama of Indta's Past The G m k Vlew of L ~ f e Is Pmgreu Real? War Examtnattons The R ~ c hand the P w r The Enpandmg Untversc Polttrcs and the English L ~ g u a g e The Bradford Schoolmr~ter S f l a c e and Trulihon Lany Collms and Domuuque Laplerre lawaharlal Nehru G Lowes D~ckmron Will D u m t Luig~P~randello Wlnston S Churchlll C P Snow F d d Hoyle George h e l l J B rnMley Bemand Rutscll 4 1. Augustinc, A E. (ed.) 1985. Selected Prose Models Madras: Macrnillan. I 2 3 On Bctng Hard Up Matchem Boys vs M u t e n Jerome K Jerome E V Luau Ernest Raymond Plesturu Aldous Huxley Student Mobs J B Pr~cslley I Tremble lo T h ~ n k Robert Lynd The Values of Sc~ence Jacob Bronowsk~ Can We AfTord lo Keep Open Minds? B e m d Russell On Growmg Old W Somerset Maugham The M a g ~ cof Words Lord B~rken A Labour of Love N~radC Chaudhur~ A Free and Th~nkmgPeople Ed~th Ham~lton l n t e ~ e l ~ g ~ oFr~endsh~p us S Radhaknshnan The Mahauna's H e ~ r Frank Moraes 42 Das, P N and J K C h a n d (eds ) 1987 Delrghrs of P r o s e C a l c u t t a OUP Prospects In the A m and Sc~ences Culture of the Fam~ly Why Soc1alam7 4 Fear of L ~ v m g 5 The Future of l n d ~ a 6 Commun~cat~on 7 The C h ~ l d l ~ kAdults e 8 The Funct~onsof a Teacher 9 An Awful Prospect 10 The Complete Man 11 The Beauty of Onssa I 2 3 12 The lmagurat~veMmd m Sc~ence J Roben Oppenhe~rner L e w ~ Mumford s Alben Emstem J Krtshnamun~ Swam1 V~vekananda Dav~dCrystal Desrnond Morns Bemand Russell E M Fomcr Prmce Phtl~p Fodor's G u ~ d efor Lndla. Pak~stanand Nepal Jacob Bronowsk~ 43 X a v t e r , L o u t s a n d P N R a m a n l ( e d s ) 1987 D e v e l o p r n g R e a d r n g Skrlls-Book I P o n d ~ c h e r r y P o n d ~ c h e r r yU n t v e r s ~ t y rpt , 1989 T h ~ sBeaut~fulWorld of Ours Half-A-Rupee Wonh F ~ n Ann~venary t of G a n d h ~ j Death ~'~ Three Days to See The Man Who Knew too Much Sparrows lnd~anCrowds Sc~ent~fic Methods and Rmclples The Cop and the Anthem I Have a Dream Jawaharlal Nehru R K Narayan C raja go pa la char^ Helen Keller Alexander Barmn K A Abbas N~radC Chaudhun Andrade and J u l ~ mHuxley 0 Henry Manln Luther K ~ n g 44 X a v t e r , L o u i s and P N R a m a n l ( e d s ) 1987. D e v e l o p ~ n g readrng Skrlls-Book N Pondlcheny. P o n d l c h e n y U n ~ v e r s l t y I 2 3 4 5 6 7 The Subst~tutefor the Sllar Confeu~onsof a Sunnsc Seeker Our Possus~onr D u t h ofaClerk A Laymm Looks at Science Mother Teresa MyWood Manoj Das Mark T w m R K Nmyan A P Chekhov Raymond B Fosd~ck Khushwmt Smgh EMFwrta 8 The Unexpected 9 The Complete Man 10 Machines and the Emotions Ella Adk~ns Prince Phil~p Bertrand Russell 45 Ed~tonalBoard, Department of Engl~sh,Marathwada Unlvers~ty(ed ) 1987 E m a o n r An Anthology ofEnglrsh P r o ~ eand Poetry Bombay. OUP, rpt 199 1 I 2 3 4 5 Bondage Who IS a G m t Man? The Tenament of a Walker A Lener to the Mahatma Echoes of the Mahatma In Bakha's Manohar Malgonkar Dr B R Ambedkar R K Narayan Jawaharlal Nchm Mulk Raj Anand Swl Two Cheers for Democrncy The Sclent~ficT a h n ~ q u e The Chlld-Who-War-Tlred 9 The Cow of the B a r n d a 10 Kishorganj 6 7 8 E M Forster Bertrand Ruuell Katherine Mansfield Raja Rao N~radC Chaudhwi 46 Jag&san, S (ed ) 1987 Avenues to English Prose Madras: OUP, rpt. 1989 Sn Ramakrlshna and Swam1 Vtvekananda Jawaharlal Nehru On the Need for a Qu~etCollege Stephen Leacock A 1 Cronm E M Fomcr W H Hudson R K Narayan J F Kennedy A G Garduter v s SMIVW SmUl C F Andrcws W Somerset Maugharn J Bronowski C E M Joad Walter B Cannon Bertrand Russell Two Gentlemen of Verona Hymn Before Act~on The Samph~reGatherer Headache What Kind of Peace Do We Want' On Keyhole Morals Mahatma Gandh~ Shanun~ketan The Ant and the Grasshopper The Dllemma of the Scientist A D~alogueon C i v l l ~ n t ~ o n Serend~plty Knowledge and Wisdom 47 Mukheq~,N (ed ) 1988 Lnnguage and Erperrence An Anthology of Modern Prose New Delh~S. Chand & Company (Pvt ) Ltd I 2 3 4 5 An EduEated Person Translatmg Llternture Into Llfe Culture The Need for R e l ~ g ~ o n Umbrella Moials 6 The Fust Fow himutes 7 The Tiger Smllcd 8 Tight Corners 9 My Lost Dollar 10 Testament I I What a Science? 12 The Values of Sclence Harold Nlcolson Arnold Bennett K M Munshl M K Gandh~ A G Gsrduter Roger Bann~ster Jun Corbea E V Lucar Stephen Lescock Jawaharlal Nehru George Omell Jacob Bronowsk~ 48 Santha Kumary, S (ed ) 1989 A Chorce Collectton of Essays Madras: B I Publications Pvt Ltd. The Golden Fmlt A A Mllnc Whence Water John A Loralne T m Speaks C Rajagopalacharl Why We Must Conserve Lewls Mumford The Selfish Glant Oscar Wllde Smells Llke Rain Magnus Pyke L m e r to lndua Jawaharlal Nchm F m w e l l toTobacco Roben Lynd The Miracle of Gnus Joxph Wood b t c h Can We Stop Earthquakes? From World of Wonrter The God Who G ~ v e Away s Land Roben T ~ m b u l l Anunal Rlghu Arnold Joseph Toynbee Good Housekeep~ngman Age of Wa:ireJohn Seymour & Herben There Came a Cry of Joy Loren Elseley Bharatvur Blrd Paradlse Manm Ewans 49 Devasla, P J (ed ) 1989 The Art of &posrtron. Madras. Indian Open Umvers~tyBooks Publishers I 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 II I2 13 I3 A. DIVERSE PATTERNS O F EXPOSITION Head Ache R K Narayan C w r t s h ~ pThrough the Ages James Thurber Agmg m Ihe Land of Ihe Young Sharon Cunm The Sp~derand the Wasp Alexander Permnkev~tch Sweelr Robert Lynd The Open W~ndow A G Gardlner B. LIFE SKETCHES The Monster Deems Taylor 'The Man Who Knew too Much Alexander Baron The Kid Charlie Chapl~n C. SOCIAL AWARENESS On The Conduct of L ~ f e W~lham Hazlln On Natronal P r e j ~ d ~ c e s Ol~verGoldsmrth D. UNCOMMON DARING Major Gagarm Goes Round the World G F h b One L ~ f e C h r ~ s t ~ uBarnard n Fa~thOn I t s Tnal Mahatma Gandh~ I 7 I8 26 37 48 55 66 66 75 94 103 116 129 SO Raju, Anand Kwnar (ed ) 1989 Global Englrsh An AnthologyofEnglrsh Prose Madras Blaclue Publishers and Distributors 1 2 3 4 5 6 INDIA R K Narayan S Radhalvrrhnan Jawaharlal Nehru BRlTAIN Exun~natlons W S Churchlll U. S. A. The Indapensable Oppos~t~on Walter L~ppmuur NEW Z E A W N D A Cup oftea Katherme Mansfield F ~ k Years n An l d u l Before the Youth A Glory has Departed I 4 13 17 28 38 GERMANY E F Schumaker CANADA 8 On the need for a Qulet College S Leacock SCOTLAND 9 Two Gentlemen of Verona A J Cron~n AFRICA 10 On not Answenng the Phone W Plomer IRELAND I I How l became a Publlc Speaker B Shaw NIGERIA I2 Marr~ageu a Pnvare Affa~r Chtnua Achebc 7 Technology w ~ t ha human face 5 1 Vasudev, Parvathl (ed ) 1989 Sprrng Blossom An Anthology ofprose Ch~thraPubl~catlons I 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 II I2 13 14 Madras Anu NARRATIVE & DESCRIPTIVE PROSE The Unexpected Roben Lynd lnd~anCrowds Nuad C Chaudhun Travel by Tram J B nest ley Upper D ~ v ~ c ~Love on Manohar Malgonkar The Kmg IS Dead Mary Colendge HUMOUR My Fmanc~alCareer Stephen Leacock Un~vers~ty Days Jams Thurber Examtnat~ons Wmston S Church~ll SPORT & ADVENTURE The Sport~ngSpmt George Onvell The Challenge of Everest H P S Ahluwal~a PORTRAITS F m t A~lversaI-j'of Gandhyl'r Death R ~ J ~ J I My Boyhood Rab~ndransthTagore SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Spoon-Feedmg W R lnge The Air We Llve ~n Lmcoln Bamett THE NINETIES 52 Ramamurt~,K S. (ed ) 1990 Perspectrves on Modern Engl~shProse New Delhl V ~ k a s Publlsh~ngHouse Pvt. Ltd The Parting The Inward Light Half a Rupee Worth 4 Tolerance 5 Go to the Ant? 6 Sweeo 7 LaPt Day at School 8 When You Dread Fulurc 9 On Poucsslon 10 The Mysterious Power of Melody and Rhythm 1 2 3 Chaman Nahal Dr S Radhalinshnan R K Naraym E M Fontcr Mark Twarn Robert Lynd Glovann~Mosca A I Crontn A G Gardlner Valentm Petrushm Appendu 1 I I H~tler'sAttack on Russ~a 12 Srl Jawaharlal Nehm W~nstonChurch~ll Arnold Toynbee 177 112 120 53 Tickoo, M L and Paul Gunashekar (eds) 1991 Reading for Meanlng New Delh S Chand & Company Ltd I The Land Where There Were No Old Men and B~rd-Rmgmg 2 M~grdt~on 3 Dr L~v~ngstonc Explores Afnca 4 My Greatest Olympic Pnze 5 The Conjurer's Revenge 6 Lc Corbusler 7 The Mark of V~shnu 8 The One And Only Houdlnl 9 A Case of Susplclon 10 The Breathalywr I I Standing Up For Yourxlf 12 The Verger Jean Ure Jamal Ara Patr~ckMoore Jesse Owens Stephen Leacock David Carver and Ronald Mackln Khushwant Slngh oben Lado d Wallace Yevgny YeMvhenko Somerset Maugham 54 Snraman, T (ed ) 1993 College Prose Madras Macmillan Lener to a Teacher Spoken Engllsh and Broken English 3 Voluntary Povmy 4 A Snake in the Gracs 5 The C~vlll~ation of T e d a y 6 Kamal Nehm 7 W ~ t hthe Photographer 8 Profess~onsfor Women 9 On Lener Wr~tlng t Ghost Got In 10 The N ~ g h the I? A CupofTea I 2 Nora Ross1 and Tom C:ole (Trans ) G B Shaw M K Gandhl R K Narayan C E M Joad Jawaharlal Nehru Stephen Leacock Vuglnia Wwlf Alpha of the Plough James Thurber Katherine Manstield 1 7 17 25 32 44 55 63 75 97 107 55 David. Mary T (ed ) 1994 New Strldes in English Madras B 1 Publications P n v a t e L t d The White Flower Tree Speaks I Thought About thw Gul W~ththe Photographer A Dlslogue on Clvlluatlon Three Days to See Subha Careless At Last Bspu l Testament of The Last W ~ l and Silverdme Emblem OUeill The S m * Life of Plants The Eyes are not Here Sport-A Modem Hunttng Rlhlsl R K Narayan C Rajsgopalachan Jerome Wedman Stephen Leacock C E M Joad Helen Keller Rab~ndranathTagore 1 B Rlestlcy Jawaharlal Nehru Eugene O'Ne~ll Peter fompklm and Chnstc)pher Bud Ruskln Bond Desmond Moms 108 117 129 APPENDIX 2 Ltst of textbooks prescr~bedfor the students of the Foundatton Engl~shCourse to be admttted from 1992-93 onwards I B A & B Sc - Foundatton Engltsh I.I n t e ~ i v eRending 1 Reodrngfor Meanrng A course m Readrng skrlls Eds M L Tlckoo & Paul Gunashekar, Madras S Chand & C o , 1987 Rs 101(see appendtx-l for the contents) 2 Macmillon Cullege Poetry Vol 11 Ed Coltn Swatrtdge Madras Macmlllan, 1990 Rs 8/50 The followtng poems only I Wtlltam Shakespeare Sonnet 29 2 Wllltam Wordsworth Written tn Early Spnng 3 John Keats Sonnet 20 4 A I M Tennyson The Flower 5 WtlfrcdOwen Anthem for Doomed Youth 6 WBYcats The Ballad of Father Gtlltgan 7 Robert Frost Unharvested 8 P h ~ l ~Larkln p Toads 9 Dom Moraes The Garden 10 A K Ramanujan Obttuary n. Extensive Reading I Tellmng Toles An A n ~ h o l o go~j Modern Short Stories Ed Mary T Davtd Madras B I Publ~cat~ons, 1985 Rs 71I Kathenne Mawfield The Doll's House 2 Macktnlay Kantor A Man Who Had No Eyes 3 R K Narayan Lavana 4 Lbo Tolstoy The Gratn That was Ltke an Egg 5 Helen Cresswell The Translatton of Uncle George 6 S a k ~(H H Munro) The Mouse 7 0 Henry The Gttl of the Mag1 8 Anton Tchekhov An Inc~dmt 9 Hcrman He~jermans Grandfather's B~rthdayPresent 10 Oscar W~lde The Devoted Fnmd 2 Swamy ond Frrends by R K Narayan m.writing SWU~Development Wrrtten Englrsh &r You Eds. G Radhakrishna Ptllat, K Rajeevan & T Bhaskaran Nair M h : Emerald Publishers, 1990 Rs.251(The following sectlons are to be studted In the I year Letters 1 & 2, Paragraphs, TCIC&MIS. Narmttng) APPENDIX 3 DEAR FRIEND, I would like you to glve me some personal information and answer the questions that follow as honestly as possible. It is purely for a research purpose Thanks for your help SUPERVISOR DR.P.N. RAMAN1 D. GNANASEKARAN READER, ELTCENTRE PONDICHERRY UNIVERSITY Ph D Scholar la Engl~sh PONDICHERRY UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDIUM OF INSTRUCTION AT SCHOOL COURSE . SEX QUESTIONNAIRE SECTION A lastructions Rank these purposes for learning English m the order of Importance to YOU That is, write (1) agalnst the most important purpose and (10) aganst the least important purpose 1 want to learn English under the compulsory programme (Part - 11) because 11 will help me (bes~desmeetlng an educational requirement, i e., a pass) to 1 read a lot of books in Engl~shin my own subject area 2 behave l ~ k ethe British or the American people 3 watcl~good Engllsh programmes on T V speak and write In English more fluently and correctly 4 5 6 get a good knowledge of English In order to galn other people's respect learn about and understand the English-speaking people and their customs, manners, culture, etc better. 7 face competitive exarmnations and get a good job. 8. follow the classroom and other lectures In Engl~sh 9 widen my general knowledge and awareness of current affalrs 10 read newspapers and magazines 111 Engl~sh 0 0 0 u SECTION B Do you find the General English Programme Quite a, enjoyable b. relevant c. useful 1. 0 0 0 Some what 0 0 I) Not at all 0 0 0 Appendix 3 180 2 Expla~nthe redsons for your cholces above in terms of subject matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cacil~tloa \ . ~ ~ l a hatl scollege any other (please rpecify) SECTIOY C 1 W h ~ c hof the prose lessons did you f ~ n d (Please give the titlets) most ~nteresringand qu~cklyunderstandable Why 2 . . . . 7 . . . . . 7 ledst interest~ng7 . . . . . Whv 7 . . .. Which of the poems did you find mort interesting and ear~lyunderstandable 15351 interotlng 7 ? Whv 3 Which of the extensive readers d ~ you d l~ke nlost 7 Why " leart 7 . . . . . . Why 4 . . . . . . . Which of the Wr~ttenCommun~cationexercises did you enjoy doing most 7 Why? least ? Why? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ................................................ SWI'ION 1 Appendix 3 181 D Ilow do you think can tlic Gclieral English Progri~~nnis he 111ade niorc enjoyable ur~tluselul to you? 'ftck the ones you think .Ire appropriate 1 by using simpler lcxts 111 terms of language difficulty 2 by using texts set in faluiliar/Ind~ansoc~aland cultural environment (characters, s~tuations,etc.) 3 by using texts set In unf.~m~liar/foreign social and cultural 0 El environment 4 by using texts that deal wlth current affairslevents pertain~ngto India 0 0 7 I)y using exclusively texts gathered from non-traditional sources 11kemagazines, etc 0 11 Part 11 General English made opt~onal,would you still like to stt~dyit Yes 0NOD 5 by uslng texts that deal with current affairs concerning the world. 6 by using newspaper/riingazlne articles, storles etc. to supplement the prescribed texts 2 l l 15 3 SCC'I'ION E I \Vliat do you thlnk sl~oulllbe removed, if any, from the present syll;~bt~s for General Etigl~sh? 2 What do you th~nksllould be ~ncluded,~fany, In the present syllabus? 3 Please give any other suggestions or comments you would like to make on the General English Programme for ~nakii~g it more Interesting, relevant and useful to you. APPENDIX 4 THE INDIAN CINEMA Trevor F~shlock The maln features, the popular fllms, meet a profound need for romance, drama, colour and escapism, and are made to an aggressive and repetltlve formula A typical film IS very long between three and four hours, because filmgoers llke to feel they are genlng value for money In general, fllms have a love story woven lnto a battle between good and ev~l,much actlon, a llttle slapstick comedy and, almost always, four or five sudden breaks In the plot In whlch the leadlng actors break lnto song A fllm usually has at least two sad songs and two happy ones So that almost every f~lmIS muslcal As in the days of whlte hats and black hats In old Hollywood, the d~fferencebetween good and bad IS plain. The bad are always defeated and the rlch are made to suffer In sorr)(t way The good glrl gets the hero and the vamp does not The bad policeman and domlneerlng mother-ln-laware stock characters, whlle the hero's mothers are good ladles often seen praylng for thelr sons A happy, or at least a pos~tive, end~ngIS mandatory lndla IS a country where people alm to survlve and they want their films to glve them Ideas of survival They do not want unresolved dilemmas, to be sent out into the ntght puzzllng Soclal themes are popular and the story has to be strong People see enough of poverty and varlous klnds of wretchedness In their ordlnary llves not to want film makers to dwell on these thlngs But all soc~alIssues, dowry, the oppresston of women, the ruthlessness of landlords, the brutality of the people, are explored In fllms Indeed, fllms are an Important popular medlum for vent~latlngsuch matters lndlan frlms do not show nudlty or expllc~tlove scenes An endlessly worked toplc In fllm magazlnes IS to klss or not to klss 7 Actresses are lnte~lewedand say they would kiss if thls formed an honest part of an honest film Others say they would never do on screen what they keep prlvate In thelr off-screen llves Thus physlcal contact is mostly a matter of suggestion. The hero's cous~nlypeck on the herome's forehead carrles a cons~derableemotronal charge because of what 11h~ntsat Songs sometimes carry llnes of double entendre. h e camera can l~ngeron a h ~ or p a naval A glimpse of sari belng re-tied slgnals that hanky panky has occurred. Everyth~ngIS relative, of course, and there IS a continuous crltlclsm of the increasing sexual overtones and v~olenceof lnd~anclnema Popular films are the despair of the critics. The serlous fllmgoer and the crltlc deplore the Indian cinema's straylng from ds roots. India was excded by the possiblllt~esof film ever slnce the first was shown at Watson's Hotel in Bombay In 1896 Early ftlm maklng was rooted In mythology, historical drama and rural folk theatre and the Indian clnema enjoyed a golden age of integrity and maturlty durlng the 1930s and the 1940s. After Independence, however, Bombay began increasingly to ape HoHywood,complete with a star system and big-money investors demanding qulck proflts from med~ocreand formula f~lmsThe frlm Industry IS an lmportant condu~tfor black money - Income not declared to the tax authorltles COMPREHENSION: 1 Wha( b the 'lamuh' d a Olpical lndtan llm7 2 Why do tho Indian audience prduthek movles lo be long? 3 WhO ma Ihe sock characten h the lndbn mov(ea7 4 Can you axprain why mod Indtan modes have a happy d i n s 7 5 Summ deprcllnp ablecl poveny srs na poplar wilh filmgoers W h p 6 m y are social themes W r m the lndien c m 7 7 Whra and When wan the Rrst Indian R m ghown? B Whg haa been the ellea d lndhn iilms aping Hdlywoo6? 9 'The u r h m R m and Iha &k dopiom the Indhn chema'a straying hom R s rods'Wha1 vere (h.rootr d lha Indkn dnemr? 10 Do you thhk Ih.1 tho b clghl h hi8 esthale d tho Indian doema? Appendix 4(1)(b) 184 THE PARADOX OF HOLLYWOOD I would undertake to explan the paradox of ~olly-woodIn terms of ds geographical positon And the paradox of Hollywood IS th~s,that whle <regards Rseff, wrth jusbce, as the capnal of the whole film wodd, the leader, the big boss, and has always produced the highest average level of pctures, yet, to anybody of taste and ~ntelllgence.It has never produced the very bed films, the really outstand~ngcreabons, which have come In turn from Sweden, Germany and Austria, Russla and France, and may arrwe at any moment now from England. It s csrtiunly a fact of my experience that, the best of Chapl~nplctures excepted. R has atways been the European films that I have wanted to see more than once The rare works of art in films have been European On the other hand Hollywood has supplied me mttr at least m-tenths of the heentertarnment I have had In p~cture-theatresNow both strength and ns weakness come from rts geographtcal posRlon Hdly-wood is a long, long way from mphere That B why It has made the best ones True, Holtywwd 1s a suburb of a large a?y, Los Angeles, but Los Angeles, too. s merely a place that is a long way from anywhere. Only a rmred Iowan farmer would thlnk of Los Angeles as a metropolls It IS a k~ndof boom town that has gone mushrooming dselt for scores of mlles When you look down on Rs l~ghtsfrom the summ of Mount W~lson,you could lmaglne It was the capital of the world, for no city has ever before shown such I~ghts,wh~chblaze over a whole country . Everybody here 1s bronzed and fit, and nobody seems qude healthy. The climate suggests that II IS the best In the worid to work In, yet somehow one can do twice as much work almost anywhere else There IS no more cosmopoldan place than th~s,and yet R still seems an Amencan small town suffering from elephantias~sThese endless boulevards are swermmg now with arbsts of every kind, yet there is hardly a gltmmer of real art. The most b e a m 1 women ~nthe cont~nentIN^ here, yet one can hardly bother looking at them. People spend fwtunes on entertain~ng.yet there IS st111not one really first-class hotel or restaurant m the place In thb queer atmosphere, nobody stays as he was, the artst beglns to lose h ~ art, s and the businessman becomes temperamental and unbalanced Nearly every serwce s badly podomred - the chauffeurs are careless, the cooks are casual, the chambermads cannot dust, the wattas cannot wail -- because so many of these people are asptrants who are not a l b w d to ect or write scemios and will not bother to learn how to do anythlng else property. Them is no p(ece where you get more money and no place where y w get less value for It. The whde world is entertained by it, but it can only laugh bitterly at itself. And bst pMdor of all such roots as thii film cdony has are in a community even more fantastic thM M ; for or the cittztyts are crazier than the actors; and only the wildest make-believe of Hoaywood cm express the astonishing reality of Los Angeles. - COMPREHENSION 1 ma,wadkg to Ihe r&w,is the real paradox d Hollywood? 2 ~ a dv ~ t gh a~u t w B 4 C C fa ~ mb paradox 7 IblH laul tZrP d the dhec peradaxes that the author mentons 5 What make, Hollywood appear to be the capital d the (ilm W 6 T h auhofrsva that buh the streng~hd Hdlpvoal and irs weakness come horn its geographical posnm kd' 7 ~bthempclddHdywocdmthe~euhoIhethece7 & WM dar flu wlhoc mualy mean by the statement ' R SH seems an American small 'tcmn~homJlphntLdr7 Passage : 1 (An EflraCt tfOm !lie shon story Rice P u d d ~ n gon Gtiee oy Farlala Das) The cremation was p r t o r m e d Itlexpcnsrvety Thc man returning home at nlght alter thanking his M i e friends may be called a lather because in that Town there were only three ch~ldrenHho knew h ~ rse d worth and they called hlm 'Father Slttvlg a m d strangers In the bus h* began l o :hnk d each moment d that day separately, o w by one He M woken up In the mornlng hearcng her .,olce She was shakllg the~reldest scf~awake "Unn~you can't dnord l o sleep I~hethns coverlng yoursell lrom head to loot Ha9e you forgotten that today IS M d a p Aher thal wearlng a crumpled whlle sarl she wen1 about hpr work In the knchen She brought hlrn a b q c u ~ d c M u e Theroahef Had anything happened Had she sad any memorable words that should not be forgotten 9 He Ifled hard to remembet but could not recollect anythtny thal she sad later In the day You can't afford to lie ~CHT Co,pr:ng yoursell lrom head l o Iwt Tcday )s ).Ionday Those l ~ n Guck e ~ In h ~ memory s He recfled them as one would recne the names of God He fen that d he forgo those words h n loss woidd be uribearable When he leR for hls onice the chddren went wrth him As she handec over !he aiumtntum tln~nl1llc-2wtth S M C ~ S to eat at school he nollce5 the turmeru puwder slams on her hands H e neicr lhotighl 01 her durluy ~ H l c elrours They had lovecl each o:her for two years belore getting m a M ?hclr l a m ~ l ~ o ds~ 1 nut corrserit 10 ttre marrage bin they had ne.er had any occasion to regret thew decivMI Th muctt, ot moncy illnesses ol chddren - such problems exhausted them once In a whde She began to pay les anen!ton to h e r dresslrlg d n 4 hts ab~lltyl o laugh hean~lywane-: Stdi thry continued :o lore eacn olher very much 7he1r three children were also a f l e c t b o ~ l eThree boys U r m ten (ears old Bala~i >even a r c Ralan lust l ~ v e- three chtldren with perpetually M y faces. not particular clever cx goca Icr*tng Yet the lather arld the mother kept saylng to each other Urtrlz IS ~rltorr\le.l ,n enytneer81io he Balan should be a c!oc:ol 15 51) inrenttve mah~ngthlngs all the tlme lot>'- at tlls w ~ d elsrehcad a sure sign 01 lntdligence Rajan a unalrad o l k ~ n g atone In the dark and cle.er It looks as though he would ]om the army " They t ~ e on d a small stroet In a niddle-class sec113nof the cny In a l~rst-floorapartment with three room There was a small balcorly m Ironl d one ol Ihe rooms w ~ l hj ~ senough l standlng space lor two There a small 101 plant grew in n~ pot watered and l e ~ d e dby the mother NO nower had bloomed on I! as yet In the knchen the flat brass ladles and spoons hung from I i w k s on the wall Near the stove, there was a mu used small s t d on wlitch the mother used to 511 Usually when the lather came back from Office, he saw her' that a d .maktng rhappa~hrs He QOI an when Ihe btrs reached h ~ stop s His knees ached a llttle Could fl be arlhrills 7 11 he fell s r k , w would hm children turn 107 Tears came l o hls eyes unbdden He wiped his lace wlth a soiled kerchmf and walk r a w l y home W o d d the childten have dep4 9 Had lhey eaten anything 7 Or, dd they deep. weary and weeping 7 R W n ' t wen acqutred the wlsdom t o cry Or else, why had Unnt stood there gsrinp dry eyed when he had IU h.r body into the t u t Only tho youngest had cried B u that was because the chiid hed not been allowed to hlo the t u l He tca did no1 know the 8ignMcance d dean\ COMPREHENSION 1 When, was the m n rslurnlng l r m " 2 Who was the dead person? 3 "Have you lorponenthat loday 16Monday?' Whal d d the speaker mean by Ulese word67 4 Whal were the bsl words d the woman accord~ngto the man? 5 Why did the man recne those lasl words' 6 Whal were Ihe problems lhal dlslurbed the couple now and then' 7 Whal d d the lalher and the mother keep saylng lo each ofher aboul theu chldren? 8 Tears came to h s eyes unbidden ' Why? 9 Was Ihs k m l y r&ed lo In the passape rich? How do you know? 10 Haw do you Mtnk the woman's deelh stlecled the man's Ile? A m x qliKb) Prrrrge :2 188 (An Exrracf from the shorr story Mrs. Adlr by Sheila Kaye -Smith.) - In north-east Sunsex a great t o n ~ u ed land runs Into Kent It is a Land d woods the old hammer-woods d the Suusr kon hduary -- and among the woods @eemthe hammer-ponds C w i n ~to the mlckness d the woods, the road that paasas Mrs Adis's conage is dark loog belore the W r beyad lhal nk$~~there was no MIQMand no mom, only a few pdcks d fie In the black dcy above the trees 8a what Ihe darkness M the Jena rsvealed In the abvJlule sfllness d the nlgM, windless and dear, every sand was diM. MensiRed The dts(anI bark d a dog at Ddmonden sounded dose at hand, and the msn who walked on the road cwld hear the echo d his om loolaups fdiowlng hlm Ilks a knell Everynovandthenhemadeane~MItopomcxequtetly,butIherbad~e~ama~dVKxns.andthair cracbd@ and d & q were nearly as loud as the thud d his feel on the road Bddes. they made him go slowly. and he had no t h e lor that When he came to Mrs M k ' s cottage he paused a manent Only a smaR patch d grass lay beween k and the rW,and he looked h at the Ilghted, uncunalned window He a d d bee Mrs Mk simphrg over the Rre. u k m p come p d a kmle dl h He hedlated and seemed to wonder He wa8 a ~IQ, heavy, workng man, na wcccwhl. (udgtng by the poverty d his appearance For a moment he W e as W he wald open the window. then he c h a m hn mnd and went lo the door hsteed He did M Imack, txlt walked siratghl m The Y ( n at the fire turned qulcMy round 'What, yw,Peter Crouchl' she said 'I ddn't hear you knock ' 'Iddn't knock, ma'am I didn't warn anybody to hear ' w s that 7 ' 'I m n trouble ' H'l hands were shakmg a lmle Whst have you done?' 'I shot a man. Mrs MIS' . ' Y W 7' 'Ves -.I shd h m ' Y W kued him 7 'I don't k m ' For a momem there was Siience In Ihe small, st* kllchen Then the k d e W e d over and Mn.Mis mechanically put I at the sided the hre She was a wnall. lhm woman. whh a brorm, hard tace, on which the skin had drled n lnnvmerable maB, hair4ke wrlnkles She was probably not more than forty-two. bul Ille beats some women h a d h the agcicrhvrd dlwrms d Sussex,and Mn.Adl's l ' i had been harder than mosl Whnl do you want me to do lor you. Peter Crwch 7' she sakl a lktle sourly 'M me m y here a bil Is there nowhere yw can pt# me Is they've pone 7' w s they 7' The k e e p m ' Oh, you're had a quarrel wllh the keepers. have you 7' 'Yes I was d o m by Cinder Wood seeing U I cw(d pick up anything, and the keepers &mJ me Ther were lw to one,m I used my pun Then I ran la II They're aner me, they can7 be lar dl now ' M n Mirddnotlpeskforamameot Crouch looked at her beseechkgly 'You mbhl do Ifor l a ' s rake.' he said 'YW -1 bwn an ovugood Mend lo Tom.' s ~ p p e dMrs.Mb frknd to me: he wauld wan! yw to statand by me tpniaht' '&ITom's bren a very W N Iwon7 n y h&n?, lor Tom & a pI ~ u better Q d~ ywIlhan yar deserved. Maybe y w a m y la he cornea hmna lo-nlph(.t(m ws can hear W t hsap abot.4 I ' H . l b u p a l work tor an mwyd.udthecDsgwRbedmrbythen-lcanga~yddthefant? - whuolyaugo7' 'Idm?know Thwr'r tlnu l o IhWc d that.' w r l , an ~ Wr* d I I n t m m . ' d w ~ d W , ~ a d o o r w M c hed M the thedmnhloF - mlrM*h.brdcdmr~.~~~yar'rsttan,~WI~dllIh.vwr'l~Y I-' You'n a good mnun, Mm.Mk I know I'm not rn 1% Id. rrrmh.l llnTorn'&'... your anding by nw, kl maybe I'd lmw br COMPREHENSION 1 At Isme did Peter Crouch come to Mrs Mb's conage? 2 Why cld he emw Mm M n ' s conage? 3 What had he done? 4 Old he k n a r Mm M h ba~W Horv? 5 Was Mrs A d ~ ss a well todo perfon? 6 nDlr d d he appeal lo Mrs MIS? 7 Whore d d M n A d s ask him lo Me? 8 Were ltm keepem ikeiy to catch hkn7 W h p Why Ku? 0 HOW did the M l n g Inc(danl take pace? Appcndtx 4(ttt)(a) 190 DOWRY DEATHS : OUR NATIONAL SHAME Fcrgus Bordcwtch Passage 1 For centurlcs dowry has t e p r e ~ n t e da daughter's sharc of her father's propcny tn lleu of land, whlch only sons were allowed to tnhcrtt Unttl recently tt was largely confined to the Hlndu eltte As mddle-class prospcnty has grown rhroughout India In recent years. thc custom of dowry has begun to s p d among Muslims. Chnsuans. SlLhs and lower-class Htndus a\ well Dowry ha\ penodlcally been attacked as a social evtl since the 19th century and. \tncc the 1%1 Dowry Prohibition Act, has techn~callybeen illegal However. the law was .w 111-drawn and poorly enforced tha~barely a dozen sum were filed under its proviston. In recent years, thanks to tncrcastng agltatton against dowry burnings. more stringent leglslatlon has been passed The phenomenon of dowry ktlltng incorporates two overlapptng patterns both appmntly on the nsc the murder of ywng wtves whose parents. ltkc the Puns. refuse to acccdc to conttnurng exhonatlon, and the murder of wlves by husbands or tn-laws who tend to blame mom complex family problems on the supposed inadequacy of a dowry Dowry murder IS rarely. tf ever. the mu11 of poverty or mental unbalance It is a crune of the aflluent and takes place when faltering tradiuonal values colltde wtth unbndlcd 20th century consumcrlsrn Most krlltngs seem lo lnvolve a breakdown tn tradttlonal moral constraints. the Increasing acqutstttvcncss of Indta's burgeontng middle class. and a d~srcgurdfor women that Ir rooted In certain values of conservattve Htndutsm Indeed, krller*. - lrkc Rajesh Bhalla - arc usually "soltd cltluns. confident of their values but wtlltng to rnurdtr to attain what they perceive to k the esxnuals of a good mddle-class 11fc Modcmimuon ha\ ~ n c m a c dpeople's econormc cxpectauons Dowry is an easy way In whtch goods and cash can be obraned by men whose employment opponuniucs have not kept perr w ~ t hthe rcvolutlon of nstng expaccauons F a m l ~ e syteld to extortion out of fear for thetr daughters' safety. or stmply out of concern that the failure to do so will rugrmuizx them wtth a reputation for sungtnus Matenal g r u d IS often ~ntertulnedwrth a complex of emottonal tenstons lndtan conjugal rclattonshtps arc typtcally much l e v close than those between mothers and sons. f q u e n d y the mother-tn-law tnstlgates the dowry kllllng. ustng the young husband as her agent 'The daughter-~n-lawIS always constdend an outstder." says a New Delhl soctologtst The mother-~n-lawtyptcally fcels tha~hcr son IS hetng snatched away from hcr. and thc supposed lnadtquacy of the dowry becomes an excuse for her sense of loss and resentment " Morrowr. Htndu trad~tront m n s women to seek fulfilment tn self-dental. So to complrun of unhapp~nessor ill-tmalmcnt to thctr parents. let alone lo Stmm@'S. 1s seen as an r t of bemyd and cultural rcbellton beyond most abused w t v u Even women who survlve burning attempts rarely condemn those who tned to k ~ l lthem Renu Pun. for uunpk, slgned I u l t c m n t horn ha hospital bed on the mormng after her burmng saying Ih.1she'd aught fire rcidcntally Only four days later, convtnccd that she was gotng to die, & j she wfl her doctor that her husband was responsible. COMPREHENSION : I What was thc onylnal reuon for ylvlny dowry' 2 GIVC any two I m p n a n l reasons for the occurrcncr of dowry deaths 3 Why do hndc's parents agrcc to give dowry7 4 How dcrs rwent~rthccntur! consumertsm lead to more dowry deaths7 5 In spite of Icgnl salcgunrds u hy are wc unable to check dowry7 h Dcwry murder oRcn rcsults fr,rm povefly or mental lnslabll~ty (TruetFalse) 7 Whlch rclatronsh~p15 cl~zrcrIn lndlan fam~llcsas underslcrd from the passage7 - - a) husband wife h) father son d) mother-son C) mother - daughter 8 Why &aik nicxl~cr-tn-lawusually ~mtrgatedowry hlllnp? V Why do vlcllm\ 'if Jtiury fall to r c p m the 111-tnatmcntthey face? 10. Do you agree w ~ t hthe wrltcr c;tlIlngdi>wry death 'a national shame'? Explain your stand 10 two M t h m sentences. Appendix 4(iii)(b) 192 PROFESSIONS FOR W O M E N Virginla Woolf Passage : 2 What could be easier than to write articles and to buy Persian cats with the profits? But wail a moment Articles have to be about something Mlne. I seem to remember, was about a novel by a famous man And while I was wntlng this rev~cwI diroverrd fhat if I were going to review books I should need to do battle with a certam phantom And the phantom was a woman, and when I came to know her bemr I called her after the herorne of a f m s poem The Angel in thc House It was she who used to c o r n berwcen rn and my paper when I was wntlng reviews It was she who bothered me and wasted my b r n and so tomwnlcd me that at last I hlled her You who come of a younger and happrer generauon may not have heard of her-you may not know what 1 mean by the Angel in h e House I wrll describe her as shortly as I can She was intensely sympathebc She was immensely charming She was ulterly unselfish She excelled in the difficult arts of lamlly I ~ f c She sacr~ficedherself daly 1f them was ch~cken.she took the leg; if there was a draught she su in it-in shon she was so consUtutcd t h a she never had a mmd or a wish of her own. but prcfemd to sympathize always with the mlnds and wishes of oikn Ahove dl-1 need not say 11--5hc was pure Her p u n y was supposed to be her chief beauty-her blushes, her great grace In those days--the last of Queen V~ctonaevery house had it& Angel And when I came to wntc 1 cncounlcred her with Ihc very fvsl words Thc shadow of her wings fell on my page. 1 heard thc rustllng of her sku% In h e room fhnctly, that 1s to say. I rod; my pen in my hand to review chat novel by a famous man. she sltppcd behind me and whspered 'My d w , you arc a ywng woman You arc wnung about a book that has been wnttcn by a man Be sympathcuc, be tender, flatter. deceive, use all the ans and wiles of our sex Never let anybody guess that you have a rrund of your own Above all. he pure' And she made as if to gwde my pen. I now record the one act for which I take some credit to myself, though the credit nghrly helongs to some excellent ancestors of mine who left me a certam sum of moneyshall we say five hundred pounds a year ?-SO that it was not necessary for me to depend solely on chann for my living I t u r d upon her and caught her by the thr0.t I did my best to k ~ l lher My excuse. if I were to be had up in a coun of law, would k th# I sa#l m self-defence Had I not lulled her she would have killed me. She would have plucked the hem out of my wntlng For. as I found. h m t l y I put pen to paper, you cannot review even a novel without hav~nga mind of your own, without expressing whu you th~nkto be uuth about human nlatlons, moralrty. sex. COMPREHENSION : I What w a Z What w.rr 3 '1:vcr) the first anlclr that the wnter chose to wrtte on7 I~IC tin1 d~tlicultytI1;tt she had to overcome? 1 1 0 ~ sh.b ~ tts A n p i " What does ~ h author r refer lo? 4 Wh? dtJ !tic u r ~ t z attempt r to k ~ lthe l Angel In the house' h What arc the c h n r a c t e r ~ sof t ~ :i~ rrv~cwcr' 7 "Had I nvt k ~ l l r dhrr she would hnvr Lulled me " Whal docs the author mean by t h ~ s ? X Men and Women are equal in all tcspccts tn the author's x x l r t y O ~ r ' F a l s e ) 9 Tick the mtat nppnipnate a) angry h) sarcastic c) rebellious d) consewalive Thc author ts 10. W~LF thc Anycl in !he house o t w i n or a cunc to the wrller Justify. ~.... -. - - ------ ,c. "n.t I ~ k and r undersland beltet? 111 121 THE PIED PIPER OF DELHI Shankar explained that he always exaggerated some physlcal feature of hts vtctims. I n t h i s w t w ~ t h e v i a r o y ' so a ~"Even . ~fI draw juslthe nose."hesaidslyly,*~lewillknow it's yourhusband." ard Willingdon r d happ~ly. Indian leaders like Jawaharlal N c h ~were ~ u s;I\l \portlng.The Prime Minister, whom Shankar w w n e d more than 1,500 timr\.enjclyed Shankar'swork ~~nmelaely. "Don'tspare me,Shankar,"heooce old the cartoonist. Shankar never spared anyone. Durlng the hornl'yll~;:lkngal hrnine of 1943, when the Indian Food Mernber.Sir1.P Srivastava, talkedgl~blyofmov~ngfnwlgo~~c.fromsurplustodefictt areas, Shankar d m Srivastsva with an arrow leading from an enormous pnunclk lo a tiny head. Ooe pronuneat Congressman the "Devil of Delht" regularly caricatured was C.Rajappalachari, the Wr-in-law of 7'heHudccrun Tunes edttor Devdas Gandh. Rajajl complained to Devdas md one day Shankat rccetved a letter from h ~ cdttor s requesting him not to draw any more such cartoons. S h a h responded w ~ t ha cartoon on Raja), the following morning ! The incident, though, so upsel Shankarthatshonly thereafter he resigned fromthcpapcrandstantd h l s w n weekly magazine. Wtth a c a p ~ ~of a l just Rs.10,000-Shankar's enttresavings, plusloans from friends- the new venture's future was clearly no laughing matter. But all thineen thousand copies of the first issue of Shunkar's Weekly in May 1948 were eagerly snapped up and for the next 27 years, Shankar's Weekly remained true to its credo that "everything Iaughahle will be laughed at." Apan horn politiaaasJhnkpr's weekly also castigated the self-=lung and socialclimbing bureaucrab and businessmen of frcc Indls's new elite. Shankarimmortaltzed them asBodnSaab a n d M e m S ~ b , each wtth the head of a donkey. In addilion to providing much d e d relief From India'soverly serious oewspapcrsandmagadnes, Shankar's WeeUywas anursery for several ofthc muntry's fledglingcanoonists. Shankar also encouraged writers horn a wide variety of backgmunds, from journalists and politicians to housewives and students. Producing a fumy magazine was, of course, hard work and in the early months of Shankar's Weekly its founder pot little rtst. Cartoonist T.Samuel remembers the many mornings he arrived at the office to find Shankar, wearing a dark blue apron, his bushy eye-brows flexed, intent at the drawing board. "He'd spent d l night there," Samuel recalls, rumundedby aseaofdiscardedcartwlrs,cigarette butts and fl& of la-cold w a r . " When a& urtooning, Shankar indulged in his two other g m t passions - playing bridge and enteMining friends. But his s e w of fun never left him. He o a a invited a large group of Russianj o u d i r t s home to dinner. Determined t o s h w the vodka drinkers a thing or two, he served them "Asha," a fiery, tmnspmnt Rajrsthani drink made of crushed stones and alcohol! No1 one of the guests dared ask for a refill l COMPREHENSION: 1. What docs the Cartoonist do to produce the comic effect? 2 How do you know that Shankar respected and admired Nehru? 3. How did Nehm nau to Shankar's cartoons? 4. Why did Shankar draw Sir J P.Snvirstava with "an a pouch to a tiny head"? m kadtng from an enormous 5. Who was the 'Devtl of Delh~'? 6. What made Shankar scan a mw weekly of hls own? 7. What wan the motto o f Shanhr 's Weekfy? 8. W b did SbrJ;ar portray as Boda Soob and Mem Swb? 9. What war substituted for vodka pmvided by Shankar? In Whv ir Shu*.r ceLd to a*the 'Pied Piper of Delhi'? Appendix 4(iv)(b) 196 LEONARD0 DA VINCI Passage : 2 It is evenlng in Florence The citizens of the republic are taking their ease The great painters, the sculptors, scientists, philosophers gather together to talk But they are not tallung now They are listening They arc listening to a young man of strlktng beauty, whose face llghts up as he warms to his subject His features are remarkable and they are framed by the luxuriant curls of his golden hair. which fall about his shoulders and down over h s rosecolourcd cloak Beneath the cloak npple the muscles of an athletic body; the young man is poised in a stnlung attitude and the beauty of h ~ sappearance is matched by the beauty of tus voice, and the beauty of his voice is but wonhy of the wtsdom and the fire of his talk The wise men of Florence listen This man, one of the greatest lights and most dynamic forces of the Italian Renassance, was born in 1452 He was the son of a lawyer, Sir Piero Antonio da Vlnci. and he was born in the fortified hill village of Vincl, whence h s fanuly took 1t.s name The young man is Leonardo da Vincl, known in Florence as a youth of charm and d k . a man of wit. a singer and a poet. a nsing pamter, sculptor and arctutect. But they do not know him, as we do to-day, as one of the finest painters the world has seen, a draughtsman, sculptor, architect, mechanician. mllitary and civil engineer. natural philosopher, a pioneer in many realms of science, an anticipator of Gallleo, Newton, Bacon, Harvey. Watt. Fulton a genius whose versatility has never been paralleled in the h~storyof the world 'lhat. In bnef, is a chronicle of Lanarclo's llfe It would take a volume to chromcle his achievements Had his notebooks been published at the tlme of hls death, science and scientists would have been saved centuries of labour. but they were neglected unol the nineteenth century, when it was found that Leonardo had anticipated &scovenes in every sphere. He designed an aeroplane which. if he had had some agent such as the petrol engine. would have flown He anticipated the use of steam. sketched a steam cannon, and designed paddles for shps He even made drawlngs for breech-lodng cannons Some of the machines that he constructed and designed, such as the saw in the marble quames of Carrara, are still in use He was the originator of the science of hydraulics, and discovered the camera obscura. He was convinced of the molecular structure of water, had knowledge of sound and llght waves, and was the first to study the structure and arrangement of flowers and foliage And he was a gmat phlosopher HIS virtues are not ended As a man he was handsome, strong enough to bend horse-shoes, charm~ng.tactful, athletic, he was popular and deserved to be. he was a generous and loyal fnend, and devoted to h s followers and pupils. There can only be one summary of Leonnrdo da Wnc~,that almost perfect example of the ctviltud mind wedded to a healthy body He was the complete man. - From One Hundred Gnat h v e s COMPREHENSION : 1. How do you know that Leonardo was a forceful speaker? 2. Which distind period of human history did Leonardo belong to? 3. Why was LeonarQ called L m a r Q da V i d ? 4. Even the people of Florence knm Lmardo to be a genius in many fields. (TNe/F.Lse) - 5. When were LeonarQ's nok4mik.s first published in the 1Mor the Ukh Century? 6 How could the publication of his notebook have saved centuries of lahour for the scientists? 7. Name any two inventions which Ltonardo seemed to have anticipated? 8. What w e n the various fields in which Leooardo excelled? 9. h o a r d o is a genius whasc versatnlity hRs been paralleled only by painters like Michael Angelo. ma) 10. How u n we d l Leonard0 da Vinci a "Complue man"? Which of lhe two pasqes do you like ud u l d e M b s n u ? Why? )Tv i Students' Shame M.K. GANDHl The letter from an experienced woman relates the experiences of her g~rlfrlends In Lucknow They are molested In clnema theatres by boys sMlng in the row behlnd them uslng all kinds of language which I can only call Indecent They are stated to resort even to practical jokes, whch have been described by my correspondent but wh~chI must not reproduce here In the cases of rude remarks, there need be no perturbaQonbut there should be no indifference. All such cases should be publlshed In the papers. Names of the offenders should be published In the papers when they are traced. There should be no false modesty about exposing the ml. There IS noth~ngl~kepubllc oplnlon for castlgabng publlc mlswnduct. There is no doubt that, as the correspondent says, there IS great publc apathy about such matters. But it is not the publlc alone that are to blame They must have beforethem examples of rudeness. Even as steallng cannot be dealt w~thunless cases of th~evlngare publlshed and followed up, so also IS It impossible to deal with cases of rude behavlour B they are suppressed. Crlme and wce generally requlre darkness for prowling They disappear when light plays upon them But I have a fear that the modern glrl loves to be Jullet to half a dozen Romeos She loves adventure. My correspondent seems to represent the unusual type The modem girl dresses not to protect herself from wlnd, rain and sun but to attract attenbon. She Improves upon nature by p n t l n g herself and looklng extraordinary. The non- wolent way IS not for such girls. I have often remarked in these columns that definde rules govern the development of the non-violent spirit in us. It IS a strenous effort It marks a revolution In the way of thinking and Ilving. If my correspondent and the g~rlsof her way of thlnking will revolution~zethelr Ide In the prescribed manner, they will soon find that young men, who at all come in contact with them, will learn to respect them and to put on thelr best behaviour In thelr presence. The great question, however, IS why should young men be devold of elementary good manners so as to make decent glrls be In perpetual fear of molestation from them? I should be sorry to discover that the majority of young men have lost all sense of chivalry. But they should. as a dass, be Jealousof their reputatton and deal with every case of lmproprlety occurring among their mates. They must learn to hold the honour of every woman as dear as that of thelr own sisters and mothers. All the education they receive will be In van, if they do not learn good manners. And is It not as much the concern of professors and schoolmasters to ensure gentleman. liness among their pupils as to prepare them for the subjects prescribed for the classroom? Appendlx Q(v)(a) :OMPREHENSION I 2 What accordlng lo Gandhrli. 1s the besf way of dealing with puMlc m~sconduct? there IS great puM~capathy about such maners What maners does the author speak 017 3 What should not be suppressed accord~ngto the author? 3 What condilions generally encourage the spread crlme and v~ce? 5 How is a modern g ~ drespnslMe lor the rude behav~our ol the young man of today? 6 What IS GaoOh111 s solullon to make the young men behave m the best possible manner? 7 What should young men do to insplre conltdence among women? 8 What does Gandhill mean by 'sense ol chivalry'? 9 What should be the rde ol the teachers, accordlng to Gandh~j~? 10 Do you consider Gandhiji's obseMltiom on the modern boys and girls correct? Why or why not? I 99 Appndix 4(v)(%) 200 IS PROGRESS REAL? WIII and Arlel Durant Passage : 2 History IS so lnddferently rlch that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of Instances Chooslng our evidence with a brighter b~as,we m~gMevolve some more comfomng reflections But perhaps we should first define what progress means to us. If it means increase In happiness its case IS lost almost at first sight. Our capacity for fretting is endless, and no matter how many drfficultles we surmount, how many ideals we realiie, we shall always find an excuse for bang magnfic~entiymiserable; there 1s a stealthy pleasure in rejecting manklnd or the unlverse as unworthy of our approval. It seems silly to define progress in terms that would make the average chlld a h~gher,more advanced product of lie than the adult or the sage--for certainly the ch~ldIS the happlest of the three. Is a more objectwe definition possible? We shall here define progress as the lncreaslng control of the environment by lie. It is a test that may hold for the lowl~estorganlsm as well as for man We must not demand of progressthat d should be continuous or unwersal. Obviously there are retrogressions, just as there are perlads of fallure, fatigue and rest In a developing individual; if the present stage 1s an advance In control of the environment, progress is real. We may presume that at almost any tcmeln h~storysome nat~onswere progressing and some were decllnlng, as Russ~aprogresses and England loses ground today. The same nation may be progresslng In one field of human actrvty and retrogressing m another, as America is now progressing In technology and recedlng In the graphlc arts. If we find that the type of genius America and Australlatends to the practical,~nventive,scientific, prevalent In young countries l~ke executwe kinds rather than to the parnter of pctures or poems, the carver of statues or words, we must understandthat each age and place heeds and ellc~tssome types of ability rather than others in ds pursud of enwonmental control. We should not compare the work of one land and tlme with the wlnnowed best of all the collected past. Our problem 1s whether the average man has increased his abilty to control the conditions of h ~ life. s We should not be greatly disturbed by the probability that our civillzahon will die like any other As Frederick asked h ~ sretreating troops at Kelln, 'Would y w llve forever?' Perhaps it ir desirable that life should take fresh forms, that new civilizations and centers should have theii turn Meanwhilethe effort to meet the challenge of the rising East may reinvigorate the West. We have said that a great civillzat~ondoes not entirety die--non omnis rnoritur. Somc prectous achievements have survived all the vicissitudes of rising and falling states: the makirq of fire and light, of the wheel and other basic tools; language, writing, art, andsong; agriculture the family, and parental care; social organization, morality, and charity; and the use of teachifl to transmit the lore of the family and the race These are the elements of civiliition, and the have beentenaciously maintainedthrough the perilouspassage from one civilization to the nex They em the connective tissues of human history. COMPREHENSION 1 How do the authoo define progress? 2 When does progress become real? 3 Why shouldn't we conslder progrcss ~nt e r n of happ~ness? 4 Is progress steady and un~form' Explan wlth examples 5 Does the death of a c~v~llzatlon mean the death of all ~tsvalues7 Jusufy your answer 6 Glve any four achievements whch have survived the decl~neand fall of c1vlhzat1ons7 7 What do the wrlrers mean by the "winnowed best of all the collecuve past"7 8 What type of genlus 1s found In Amenca and Australla now' 9. What are called '~ connective tlssues of human h~story"? 10. Do y w hnk that Ihe defi~utlonof progress glven here describes progress of all h d s ? Explan in two or three sentences es do you l ~ k eand understand better? Glve your reasons Appendix 4(viXa) 202 AZlZ AND AAZAM (From Tughlaq by Glrish Karnad) Passage : 2 A camp on the Delhi-Daulatabadrobie AZlZ still dressed as a Brahmin, and W . A HINDU WOMAN is kneel-. in^ In lront ol AZlZ HINDU WOMAN Please lel me gO.Sir My child please have mercy on it only for a day. sir AZlZ I told you I can't No one can be allowed out d sight untU we reach Daubtabad I'm sorry.bul I have my orders HINDU WOMAN Bm I'U relurn tomorrOW I swear by my child i wRI il to a doctor It's dying. Your Excellency. I have to take AZlZ Buc what can I do7 There's the hakim's tent Go to htm He'll give you some medicine (In a low voice ) I've tdd you whst you can do Icould try and bribe my senior o(ficials,bur y w ' l have to pay for H HINDU WOMAN Bul I haven't got a paisa on ma. Your Excellency Andwhat wll I give the doctw? My husband's also Il.sir.please. I h d d your teal-.please I@me go AZlZ I can't w a l e any more time on you There'sa lot of work here Stop screaming and get back toycurtent-l said, gel back to your tent' The HINDU WOMAN goes obi weeping M M Poor thing! Why don't you let her go? The doctor may help her AZlZ Have you seen the c h W No wilchdoctor can save k now A lanuty comes in A man with a wOmen and six kids AZlZ So this Is your famUy All elghl here7 MAN Yes. Sir AZlZ Gel on wilh you there There's a lent kept for you Yes1 Whstever happens to the others, people like you mustn't d m The S-n will need a lo1 more like you soon So whal are you gdng to do till the S h n arrtvep InDaJambad? Another couple d children? MAN Well, we have decided to get married first. Your Excellency AAU\M (in disgust) Oh God! MAN (spologetlc) CoWn'c Rnd t h e for il h Whl. sir AAZAM Go away Go away' The Famliy goes on God, what a dirty man! I am feeting sick AZlZ Ilike such people They are the real stoics AAZAM I lust keep thinking d that poor woman Why don't you let her see the d o c t f l I'm sure she'll come back Look. Iyw want money. tell me There are enough rich men In thk camp Ill get some In no lime M Z Don't yw do anflhlng d the khd! Y w l ruh us both I( they catch you AAZAM We'll be rulned anyway Jhnately If not today, then tomorrow. Whatother Mure's lhere for us? One day my Rngan wli slow d m I I pet caught Then, no armst No legs! A tom mat and a ~Q!$IQ bow(, thsf's dl. mt: You are a hope)- caw, you know. Pathetkl You've been In DeW bfso many years and you're as stupki P me Only a tm months h W h i and Ihave dlscovend a whde new world- pollticrl U y du Nlow, thst'l when our Mw ts- pditicrt n'a a be~mlhl wor(d--wedth.sw~9~~, poJNoRP+Wd .t over Lo& y l c I t ' a ~o ( k . ~ . r r p . o p l e , ~ w k h n ~ a n I d r h m e b M . ~ I t h W c d J 1 t h . ~ I u w d L au v h a @ t o p h o h . h w t o m ~ h o m p . o p k - l o n rarrhlfttvtIR.4w'=M,rnang* . -. -..-.-1 I'. -1 -- COMPREHENSION 1 Whal ts the h~stortcalcontext ~nwhich the characters lwe? 2 Why does the Hindu Woman want to be let off lor one d a p 3 Why does A212expect money from the wornan? 4 Whal reason does Azu gtve to Aazam lor reluslng to let the woman go7 5 Why d d n ' l the man get marred eadiefl 6 Why IS Aazam revolted when the man wants to get married? 7 What does Aazam want to do lor maklng m o n e p 8 ISAazam equally confident about the future? 9 Why does Aziz think that pdhlcs Is a profitak4e profession? 10 Contrast Ihe characters of &lz and Aazam In two or three sentences DOLLY AT THE DENTIST'S GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Passage : 1 In a dentist's operating room on a fine August morning in 1896.a very preny m n In miniature, hardly e~ghteen,1s seen hohilng a glass 01 water In her hand The expression d lens8 p a l i m e under pain is fapklk claanng from her small hrm-setmouth and quaintly squaredg g b r o m The dentist, a handsome young mand Wny or thereabouts, watches her with the seH~sat~slaction of a successful operator fhe glass) Thank you (In spite of the biscuit cornplm'on she ha8 nor the THE YOUNG LADY (handng h ~ m sllghlest foreign accent) THE DENTIST @unmgit down on the ledge d hrs cabtnet o( insfruments) That was my fnsl tooth THE YOUNG LADY (aghast) Your RrSI Do you mean lo say lhat you began pract~singon me? THE DENTIST Every dentist has to begin with somebody THE YOUNG LADY Yes somebody in a hospnal, not people who pay THEDENTIST (laughmg) Oh, the hospiial doesn't count I d y rneanl my Rrsl tooth h private pracllce.Why ddn't y w let me give you gas 7 THE YOUNG LADY Because y w sakl It wadd be We sMlings extra THE DENTIST (shocked) Oh, don? say that It makes me fed as U I had hun you for the sake d Rue 8hMhlding.. THE YOUNG LADY (wlh cool msolence) Well, ao you have (She gels up) Why shouldnt y o 0 it's your kghess to hurt people (If amuses him lo be heated h fhls fashion. he chuckles secretly as he p m e e d s m dean and replace hts IflShUnmnts She shakes her dress info h e r looks inqulsithely about her; and goes m the brwd wndow) Y w haw a good view d the 6 s from your rAre they expensive ? THE DENTIST Yes THE YOUNG LADY You dont own the whde house, do you ? THE DENTIST No THE YOUNG LADY I thought not (Tilting If18 charr which stands at the wrlling-tableand looking crftically at h the latest thing, is 11 7 as she sp~nsit round on one leg) Y w r furnitwe bnf THE DENTIST It's my landlord's THE YOUNG LADY Does he own thal toothache chair ? (Po~nlingto the operating chaw) THE DENTIST No I have that on the hirepurchase system THE YOUNG LADY (disparag~ngly) I lhought so (Looking aboutin search dlurlher C O ~ C ~ U S ~I suppose W) y w havnt been here long 7 THE DENTIST SIXweeks Is there anghlng dse you wwld like to how ? THE YOUNG LADY(the hint qurte lost on her) Any fadp THE DENTIST I am not m a M THE YOUNG LADY Of course not anybcdy can see that I meant sisters and mother and that sort d lhhg. THE DENTIST Not on the premises THE YOUNG LADY Hml If ywve been here six weeks, and mine was your flrsl tooth, the practice cant be very large, can #, THE DENTIST. Not a8 yet (Ha shuts the cabinet, having Mid up wefWIlng) THE YOUNG LADY WeU. poodlwk!(She takes outherpurse) Five Shllngs, said lt wwld be? THE DENTIST F h &lllings. THE YOUNG LADY@rcducinga c r o w piece) Do you charge We drahrgs for w~ythhg? THE DENTIST Yea THE YOUNG LADY Why7 ME MNTIST: It'r mv aWm.l'm w M a cJbd a Rvr 8 h M h dent&. >OMPREHENSION I What r the name d the ywng ladp 2 What was the ladv's reaclton when the dentlst sad it was hls f~rstcase? 3 Was Ihe young lady really Ihe flrsl case lor the dentist? 4 Why d d the young lady refuse to have gas? 5 Was the dentlst single oc married? 6 How long had the dentist been doing private practice? 7 Was the dentist happy with her numerous questions? How do you know? 8 Whose lurnhure was the denllsl wing? 9 What did the young lady want the dentist to do wilh her crown? 10 Comment on the young lady's anilude towards the dentist
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