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of this question paper.

2. The paper contains 3 unseen te,xts.

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3. Students will attempt any THREE out of FIVE
questions in Part A and THREE out of FIVE
questions in Part 8 .

4. Both parts A+B have to be answered.

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Passage 1 (750 words) Oesh ba ndn u .College L\bra·ry;
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But it was the same story at school, though. They
always spoke in a bad way about people of our caste.
If ever anything bad happened, they would say
immediately, and without hesitation, "It must be o~e
of the Cheri-children who did it. "About three quarters
of the children in the school were Pallar and Parayar.
All the same, the priests had built the sd1ool in the
Nadar StreeL The church too, was in t~ same street;
so was the priests' house.Everyone seemed to think
Harijan children were contemptible. But they dido 't
hesitate to use us for cheap labour. So we carried
water to the teacher's house; we watered the plants.
We did all the chores that were needed about the
school
Thea l was in the seventh class. Every day, after
school , l would play with the other child!en of our
street before going home in the evening. There were
two or three children who are related to me, and
other boys aad girls who always played together 111:1
group.
One day, we were playing on the big neem tree in
front of the school, hanging like bats, upside down
from its branches . After a while, we starled on another
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game running right up the coconut pal m and touchi ng
its tip. The coconut palm grew slantwise, a t a
convenient angle. If you c~me running along fro m a
l distance, at top speed, you could reach right to its tip
and touch the coconut growing there.Spurred on by
the excitement of the first few who managed to touch
the coconut, those who came later, grabbed it and
gave it a twist before climbing down . By the time I
got th~re, the coconut fell at my touch, dropping with
a thud. It wasn't even a fully ripened coconut, just a
green one, without so much as water in it. All the
children were frightened and ready to scatter.
Everyone said that it was I who had plucked it. Then
we just left it there and ran home.The ne;"(.t morning
at assembly. the headmaster called out my name .
"You have shown us your true nature as a Paraya,"he
suid . ·You climbed the coconut tree yesterday after
cvcrybQdy else had gone home. and you stole a
coc1.mut . We cannot allow you inside this school. Stand
outsi1.k ." l was in agony because I had been shamed
11ml insultt'd in front of all the children .
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Thl.l hi.mdmuster was of the C'huuliy a r caste . At that
timtJ, there was a buttk going on between the
('huuliytu people, und us. ubout the" cemetery . All the
children t'Yt'd 1111.• in 11 strnnge way and walked off to
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their classes. I w · .
know what to do. Then a teacher who hved along
. our climb the stairs and to walk into the classrooms
upstairs, in such a big school. But I got used to it
street came bY and advised me to go to the .pnest,
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. every thi·ng , and bring a letter from him to the soon enough. And I also began to work at mystudies
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eagerly. The children living in the hostel who were
bea dm as t er. I went to the priest and
. told him the
the same age as me wore smart clothes and possessed
whole story in detail, and begged him to give me
· all s~rts of finery like jewels and wrist-watches. I
permission to go back to school. The priest's first .
thought to myself that they were, in all probability,
response was to say, "After all, you are from the
from upper-caste families.
Cheri. You might have done i!- You must have done
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it." The tears started welling up in my eyes, and I
Passage 2 (444 words) t(alkn ll , Mew Oelhi- •19 .
wept.
SARITA : I'm planning something.
After a long time, the priest wrote a note asking that
I should be allowed to return to the school. When I KAKASAHEB : What? A party?
took it to the headmaster, he abused me roundly, using
SARITA : A Press Conference.
every bad word that came to bis mouth, and then told
me to go to my classroom. When I entered the KAKASAHEB : A Press, Conference? What, you've
classroom, the entire class turned around to look at caught the infection, too, have you?
me, and I wanted to shrink into ~yself as I went and
SARITA: A Press Conference at the Press Club. Every
sat on my bench, Still weeping.
last journalist in Delhi must come to it.

I studied up to the eighth class in my village, and then
went on to high school in a neighbouring town. I was
very surpr ised when I saw the school there, the
children who attended it and the clothes they wore . I
felt very shy and almost fearful. It felt good just to
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KAKASAHEB : And what will this Press Conference
of yours. be about?
SARITA : l am going to present a ~an who in the
yea~ 1982 still keeps a slave, right here in Delhi.
Jaisingh Jadhav. l'm going to say: this man's a great
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advocate of. freedom.
. ,An d he brings .home a slave
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exploi1s her. He d oes n •t consider a slave a human KAKASAHEB: What on earth happened between you
two?
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be inc-Just . ect. One you can use and
a use fiu I obj·
throw . He ge. ts people to call him a sworn enemy
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SARITA: Marriage. Cc:: s h oa n:.rnu .Co lleg e libra ry
of1,r.inn).. But he· "'nnnizes
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3.5 I es. 3 nd dr-oeso·t
h.C 1.k l think anything of it-nothing KAKASAHEB : That's been going on for the last ten
al all. lis1en to the story of bow be bought the slave years . Why did you think of all this only today ?
Kamala and made use of her. The other slave be got SARITA : Why did r, you ask? I was asleep . I was
fre-e-oot just free--the ·slave's father shelled out the unconscious even when I was awake . Kamala woke
money -a b ig StlID. Ask him what he ~id with it. [An me up . With a shock . Kamala showed me everything.
unccotrn ll 2b le sob bursts from her. She controls it.] Because of her . I suddenly saw things clearly . I saw
So~·- that the man I thought my partner was the master of
a slave . I have no right s at all in this house . Because
KAK.AS .lliEB jWorriedJ: Sarita, what's all this you're I'm a slave. Slave s dun·1 have rights. do they.
tb inb::g?
Kakasahcb '.> They must only s lave away . Dance lo
their master's whim . Laugh. when he says. laugh .
SARITA : I ~ id . I'm sorry.
Cry. w·hcn he sa ys . cry . When he says pick up the
phone. they must pick it up. When he says. come to
KAK ASJ.. HEB : Do you really think this way about
Ja isi og h '! 11party, th1.• y mus t !{O . \Vhcn ht· says, lie o n lh e bcd -
thcy !Sh,· 1s t,\1 s c\·J 111 pain!

SARITA : Tb ~ is •,,:,ry Julie, what you've heard
far . There 1~ r:.r;u c. h mur c .
KAK ASAHE13 : An y 1m c wo uld thnk Jaii;rngh illi
slave-drJ\ e r.
SARITA : No1 ju ~, any<Jnc . I d•J .
1;o KAK ASA tlt-'H Surttu, sonh:ch1ng's r~:u ll :, gon e.' wr o ng .
SAKI l',c\ : And JI will never ~cl bo::11 c r. K:.i~ :1s:ihl•b .
11 Af11.·r thi s, I'll 11c v1.·r 1hink that this is my home .
KI\K ASA II EH · L (•tik. Suricu, Ji.11,,i n gh 1s nu diffcrl·n1
fl'\1 111 ,1th1., r 111u11. tk 's 11u1 unu s ua l You'r e• wrong 10
thin~ lhul hu's u t> aJ ni.111 ..

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Passage J (525 words)
Bboli dr:igged bis left t~ot along the ground and forced
me to stop. He lit a •beedi and said. 'Sir, I can't
conduct this inquiry. I'm scared of witches. If
someone tells me there's a witch in some villa~e, I
skirt past it. To tell you the truth, I'm·scared to go to
mv Oll."D ,illa5te. Nadeigarh, east of Sahdevpur. People
~ e fun of ~e name. Until a year ago -t~ere was a
'1.itch in th.is village. She's since been neutralized,
unmasked. Fisherman Madhua's daughter-in-law, she
came to our 1illage when she was sixteen, maybe
se,·erueen.. She had two miscarriages in the first two
years of marriage. That was when an ugly rumour
raised its head that this beautiful young thing-Nitei
was her n.ame-was sucking her father-in-law's blood.
\fadhua ,,.·as around fifty-five, broad as a sal tree
from ca.stin g the fi.shing net, his arms thick as maces
2nd as hard, his skin light, with a shock of curly black
hair h.ang,ing down o ver his eyes. When Madhua began
shri'.-e li ng up, with a malady of an unknown kind,
naturally people started talking. His son wa1> a peon
at the go ve rnment printing press in Cullack, and over
and above hi s regular salary he made a fair amount on
the side by selling sto len paper and ink . Plus he had
free meals at hi s boss's place, where he doubled up us
a cook . He didn't have to ~pc:nd a rupee on himfielf
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and was rolling in money, as you can imagine. He took
his father to the town hospital and showed him to the
best doctors. Madhua returned to the village with a big
bundle of medicines, but his health continued to
deteriorate. He began to avoid company, took to hiding
from everybody. By day he dido 't stir out. He would
only go out on need after nightfall. That bull of a man
shrank to a twig in just a few months . Some said he
came face to face with a water goddess, others said
his hopeless condition was brought on by eating the
liver of some poisonous fish . When medicines failed ,
quacks and witch doctors were called in. He was treated
for the evil eye . Nothing worked. One day a person
claiming to possess knowledge of the world arrived in
the village . The villagers came to him with their
problems. In the en<l they mentioned Madhua ·s plight.
The visitor asked them several questions and finally
wanted to set" the man . As soon as he rea c hed
Mndhuu's huust· he begun to bel low : "This is the den
ofu bll,od-sucking will·h!" The villagers cou ldn't believe
thl·ir l',ll'S . Tht· nt"ws crackled around the vill age that
11 witch was s ucking Madhua's blouJ and th a l she wa s
1w 11 ~ l,thl'I' than his l\\Vn J aughtt"r -i n-law, his own
Sl1n's wifr . Sl1 shl' was calkd out with threat s nnd
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a •s.. lit' vit1lt"m·t· . Nl,t,lHl y would ever have
snspcc tl'l I s·h··, ,,,.,, •.-· ,' 1 ,,,·1tch- ·•1us1 didn't look like one,
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you know. Nol 10 ordin_ary eyes, not to yours or 4. What in your opinion could have driven the villagers
· ... "t•dhua
mine " .. sat in a stupor throughout all this ... to believe that Madhua's daughter-in-law was ·
even when the daugbter~in-law, frightened out of her responsibl~ for his ill health? Substantiate with
" ·its , beaten up and with tears streaming down her reference to the extract in Passage 3.
cheeks admitted 10 her culpability.'
5. Why does Nitei "admit her culpability"? Do you think
Questions: she is really a witch? Discuss with reference to
Passage 3.
Part A

Anempt any three questions in 200-250 words each.
(3x 10=30)
1. Wb y did the narrator of Passage 1 feel "shy and
al most fea..rful"' when she joined a new school? Give
a :easo:ied an.5'11o'er in 200-250 words.
2. From th e g.i ,·en dramatic ex.tract in Passage 2, what
can :;ou infer about the marital relations between Sarita
and Ja isi n.g,h i;;hy i~ Sarita feeling so anguished? What
1: in d of p icw re of Jai singh emerges from Sarita's
di~log1..1e ~?
3 .. Look Sa r ita , h. 1~ 111 6 h is no different from othc:r mc:n .
PART B
Attempt any three questions in 300-350 words each.
() x l5=45)
6. Imagine you are the narrator of Passage l. Write a
diary entry, in about 300-350 words. describing th e
day you got in troubh: for accidentally plucking a
coconut .
7. Write u dramatic e.~ tract. in about 300-35 0 words.
describin~ a conv\."rsation between the narrator of
PHU&~ I IU\ll one of her upper caste frieb ds in her
l\l)W schol>I, whee\." the narrator tells her friend ubou1

He ' s not unu ~ua l. " Dn c us ~ the significam:c: of lhc: th1.1 cut e- baseJ discrimination which she h us
representa ti ve nature ,,f hi ~ingh':, charru: ti:r ui; ii taperienced, and the impact it ha s had ou her. Use
emerges in f'auagt- 2. lliulo~ues 1mcl descriptions of non- ver bul c ues /s1oge
directions to draft the convers ot1on .

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tictwcrn :--;n it ;1 :rnd l\.akasahch , 111odif'yi11g ii lo shnw
K:11-..:i :- :ihch a~ 1111dcr~1n11ding the issues Knnwlu mises
a hf1111 rlh' pr,,b k m 1,f male dominance in the institution
,..,f m:in 1::it:c . Ynu ma y represent the exchange in the
( ,, 1111 ,, ( a ,h:1t,)gu c 1H a narrative or an cssuy.
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l nis g1n c y ou arc a media person interviewing an
cmi~c nt S(1 cial worker on the issue of lack of agency
for women in our society as shown in Passage 3.
in clude in the interview those factors that you think
m u st change so that the status and treatment of women
improYes .

10. S uppose y ou are a witness to this scene in which

M adbua ' s daughter-in-law was "u~masked and
n e urraJ ized·'_ Write a letter to an NGO that works on
women ' s _issues and cases, such as the one given m
Passage 3, seeking action and intervention.

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