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About my Race: A Song by Poykayil Appachan : Essay Questions

November 01, 2019

Updated Kannur University Common Course Readings on Kerala (1A02ENG) 1. Poykayil Appachan's poem "About my Race: A Song" is a criticism of written histories. Elucidate. & 2. Poykayil Appachan's poem "About my Race: A Song" attempts to locate the intricacies of Dalit life in Kerala. Explain. & 3. How does Poykayil Appachan's poem "About my Race: A Song" represent the people belonging to his race? In his poem "About my Race: A Song", Poykayil Appachan foregrounds the question of race. The poem is translated into English from Malayalam by Jessica Sudhir M. The concept of "race" refers to the evicted and marginalized first people of Kerala. Poykayil Appachan was also known as Sree Kumara Gurudevan. He was a revolutionary Dalit leader and social reformer hailing from Central Travancore. His parents worked for a rich Christian family as slaves. He started his work as a preac...

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Eri by Pradeepan Pampirikkunnu: Essay Questions

October 17, 2019

Readings on Kerala Readings on Kerala (1A02ENG) I Semester UG Common Course Essay Questions: Updated 1. How does Eri question mainstream notions of scholarship and knowledge? & 2. Why is the narrator doubtful about finding sources for writing the history of Eri? Is it because mainstream histories do not document the lives of lower caste communities? Explain. Eri is a novel written by Pradeepan Pampirikkunnu and published posthumously in 2017. Eri, the character represents the historically downtrodden people in the Parayan community in Kerala. Pradeepan Pampirikkunnu uses the medium of the novel to establish the prehistory of the Parayan Caste. The narrator of the story is a research scholar, who uses memories, memoirs, oral histories, ritualistic performances, gossips, books, and other oral/literary sources. The novel attempts to historicize the making of a Paraya community in its transit to modernity and retells the renaissance of Kerala from a Paraya male per...

Faith and Transformation: The Space of Kreupasanam Marian Covenant

As we face challenges in life, we hear our well-wishers tell us to have faith… in God, in ourselves, and sometimes, in governments or even in aliens. Faith in God is certainly THE life-saving option, as Saint Augustine discovers in his life. At his younger age, he sought a life of material success, intellectual glory, and superiority among his peers. He could never achieve contentment, though. However, his mother, Monica, was adamant that her son would leave his old ways and accept faith in Jesus. She wanted her son Augustine to have God in his life. However, Augustine was too busy chasing after the world that he left his mother and went to Rome. Later, his life brings him closer to God and finally, his mother’s long wait was over with Augustine receiving baptism. He finally opened his heart to God and found His peace in life. As we are in the thick of things, it is difficult to open our hearts to God. Here is a strategy. I have learned this strategy from someone very special- the Moth...

NATURE MATTERS: Readings on Life and Nature- Course Introduction

November 22, 2019

KANNUR UNIVERSITY English Common Course (ECC) Readings on Life and Nature Prescribed Textbook: Nature Matters by MainSpring Publishers 2A03 ENG Welcome Dear students welcome to the second-semester classroom. You may be sitting in the same classroom and meeting the same teachers. This might force you to think that everything is just the same. This is a misunderstanding. You are in the second semester, a semester older since you first joined college. Now, it's time to move forward with some new and exciting plans. You may have committed several mistakes in your academic as well as personal life. Please do not repeat them all. Try as much as you can to avoid mistakes. Your intelligence is visible in the way you avoid committing the same mistakes again. Introduction One of the greatest mistakes made by human beings is the mistake of thinking that the earth and nature are abundant with resources. Human beings in almost every culture have been using natural resources...

Plus One English Exam Preparation: HIS FIRST FLIGHT by Liam O’Flaherty

January 14, 2021

Answer the following questions: Why was the young seagull afraid to fly? The seagull was afraid to fly because below him was the vast sea and he thought his wings would never support him and he would fall into the sea and die. What did the parents do to motivate the young bird when it failed to muster up enough courage to fly? They came around calling to him in a loud voice, scolding him, threatening to let him starve on his ledge unless he flew away. 3. How did the parents support and encourage the young seagull’s brothers and sister? They flew about with them, trying to perfect them in the art of flight. They taught them how to skim the waves and how to dive for fish. When his older brother caught his first herring and devoured it, his parents circled around raising a proud cackle. 4. Cite an instance which shows the pathetic condition of the young bird. When the sun was shining hot, the young bird felt the heat all the more because he had not eaten anything since ...

Readings on Kerala: Summary- The Whole Text at a Glance

November 06, 2019

Kannur University Common Course Readings on Kerala (1A02ENG) Module 1 1. A Conversation that Spreads Light: Sree Narayana Guru by M K Sanu Vallabhassery Govindan Vaidyar and T K Kittan Writer visit Sree Narayana Guru on 19 January 1928 to request Guru to sanction a pilgrimage to Sivagiri. First Guru asks them if they want a pilgrimage centre, as there are other sites for pilgrimage. They insist by saying that pilgrimage centres of Upper caste Hindus are not open for people of the lower caste. Guru grants permission. Guru tells his disciples to observe ten days of abstinence and Buddha's five ideals of purity (Purity of body, food, mind, word, deed), wear yellow garments, practice thrift and discipline. According to Guru, eight aims of pilgrimage are- education, cleanliness, piety, organization, cultivation, trade, handicrafts, technological training). Starting of pilgrimage 1 January 1933. 2. Curing Caste by Sahodaran Ayyap...

Kreupasanam Paper May Issue

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DELHI IS NOT FAR BY RUSKIN BOND: A Love Story without Losses

August 11, 2016

Image Courtesy: Penguin “…and I know that this one lifetime, however long, cannot satisfy my heart” (111). __ Ruskin Bond The Commentator says; When it’s about love, some believe it’s natural to make mistakes. The truth is ‘mistakes’ and ‘love’ do not coexist. Mistakes are not love. Love is not a mistake. Before the book review, let me recount to you a love story flew by my life a couple of months back. As some of you know, I love blogging. As some others of you are well aware, more than blogging, I love the experience of writing. Blog or my other publishing ventures, this love for writing is at the core of it all. A couple of months before, I had thought of writing a review of the book Delhi is Not Far by Ruskin Bond, author of The Lamp is Lit . Opening a word document, I wrote the title of the book with the author’s name as a ‘clever’ appendage. Then I kept it to gather some inspiration and relevance. Then I forgot. To be more precise, I pushed the priority to love to ...

The Great Mutiny; India 1857: a Book Review

“Throughout the night the work continued, but as dawn approached not a single gun had been dragged into its allotted position.” (299) Image Courtesy: Google Christopher Hibbert’s non-fiction narrative The Great Mutiny; India 1857, deals entirely with the Rebellion that sparked among the so-called sepoys in the Indian army, set up by the British. Those soldiers recruited from among the native population were the ‘sepoys’. The Great Mutiny; India 1857 although is not a typical history book with its monotonous description of political reforms and causes for this move or that change of throne. Instead, one could call The Great Mutiny; India 1857 an entertaining vista of a part in Indian history, written with amazing clarity and sincerity. Christopher Hibbert was born in Leicestershire, England in 1924. A British writer writing on an episode in Indian history is problematic, on plain sight. However, on a closer analysis, The Great Mutiny; India 1857 proves otherwise. Th...

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