ENG3 A05 - READINGS ON INDIAN LITERATURES Module 1- Poem  1. Small Towns and the River -- Mamang Dai Click here to read the poem 2. Dream: Midnight -- Sridala Swami  Click here to read the poem 3. What you do? -- Omprakash Valmiki  Click here to read the poem 4. Munda & Kondh songs  Click here to read the poem 5. (Other) Wordly Folk Tale - Geet Cathurvedi Click here to read the poem Module 2 - Short story and Fiction 1.Scorn - Bama  Click here to read the story 2.Two in the next world - Rajendra Yadav  Click here to read the story 3. The Bride’s Py ..read more

  ENG2A04 READINGS ON KERALA MODULE 1:Formation1.  “History” (Prose)excerpt from Malabar Manual – WilliamLogan 2.“Tribal Tale of Kerala" (Prose)excerpt from Kerala Culture– Prof S Achutha Warrier 3. “Ghoshayatra” (Poem excerpt)– Kunchan Nambiar MODULE 2: Evolution 1. Excerpt from Indulekha (Novel) -O. Chandu Menon 2. Excerpt from “Atmopadeshashathakam” (Poem)- Sree Narayana Guru 3. “Not an Alphabet in Sight” (Poem) – Poykayil Appachan 4.  “ Ayyankali: A Dalit Leaderof Organic Protest”(Prose-excerpt) - M. Nisar,Meena Kandasamy 5.&nbs ..read more

 ENG2A03  READINGS FROM THE FRINGES MODULE 1: Constitution, Democracy and Freedom1.“The Objectives Resolution”(Speech excerpt)- Jawaharlal Nehru To read the text, please click here  2.“How Many More Days, Democracy”(Poem) - Sameer Tanti To read the text, please click here  3. “When Salihan took on the Raj”(Article) - P. Sainath To read the text, please click here  MODULE 2: Ecology and Science 1.  "Knowledge is Power"(Excerpt from Chapter 14 of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind)- Yuval Noah Harari 2.“AWhite Heron”(Short story)- Sarah Orne Jewett To read ..read more

 Marianne Moor published the first version of 'Poetry' in 1919 and revised it many times for the next six decades. Employing the techniques of modernist poetry, Moore expands her idea of writing and reading poetry. In the poem, she differentiates genuine poetry from poetry produced by half poets and rejects existing ideas on poetic compositions and declares that genuine poetry can be produced on any mundane topics. About the Author Marianne Moore was born in 1887 in Kirkwood, Missouri, USA. Raised in the house of her Presbyterian grandfather, Moore published her early poems in popu ..read more

 Poetry Marianne Moore (1887-1972) I too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle.    Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers that there is in    it after all, a place for the genuine.       Hands that can grasp, eyes       that can dilate, hair that can rise          if it must, these things are important not because a high-sounding interpretation can be put upon them but because they are    useful; when they bec ..read more

Poetry Marianne Moore - 1887-1972   I too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle.    Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers that there is in    it after all, a place for the genuine.       Hands that can grasp, eyes       that can dilate, hair that can rise          if it must, these things are important not because a high-sounding interpretation can be put upon them but because they are    useful; when th ..read more

The poem 'To Posterity' is taken from the collection of poetry titled Visitations by Louis MacNeice published in 1957. Written six years before his death, the poem shares poet's musings on the future of books and the nature of human relationship with the environment. About the Author Louis MacNeice was born in 1907 in Belfast and he had a troubled childhood. His father, a bishop of Anglo-Irish church of Ireland, favored Home Rule and stood against the Protestant bigotry and violence in Northern Ireland. When he was six, his mother was taken to a nursing home due to severe depression ..read more

    Homecoming 1 is taken from the collection of poetry titled Rough Passage by R Parthasarathy. The collection consists of three sections, namely Exile, Trial and Homecoming. In the first section, Parthasarathy portrays the condition of postcolonial subjects who gets disconnected from their homeland, runs after 'English gods' and leaves the country to live in the land of the colonizer. In Trial, they get disenchanted with the colonizer and searches for cultural roots and prepares to return. Homecoming narrates the return of the first generation of migrants from the former ..read more

    The term 'Ecriture Feminine' (Women's Writing) was coined by the French feminist critic Helene Cixous in her essay The Laugh of Medusa published in 1975. In the essay, she puts forward the emergence of a distinctive writing called 'feminine writing'. According to Cixous, this form of writing has its origin in the mother-child relationship before the child acquires male-centered verbal language. Drawing heavily from the psychoanalytical model developed by Jacques Lacan, she locates feminine writing in the pre-linguistic (the Imaginary Order) stage of human chil ..read more

    In Morphology (study of morphemes or how morphemes join to form words) a morpheme is the minimal meaningful unit in a language. For example the word 'human', 'legal' 'mortal' are morphemes. A morph is a word segment that represents one morpheme. In another words, a morpheme is an abstract unit of meaning and a morph is formal unit with a physical shape. To make it more clear, morpheme is conceptual and it is the description of what a morph is or does to a word; on the other hand morph is the concrete form of a morpheme.      For example, the morpheme ..read more