"River Once" Poem by R Parthasarathy

With paper boats boys tickle her ribs,

and buffalos have turned her to a pond.
There's eaglewood in her hair

and stale flowers. Every evening,
as bells roll in the forehead of temples,
she sees a man on the steps

clean his arse. Kingfishers and egrets,
whom she fed, have flown
her paps. Also emperors and poets

who slept in her arms. She is become
a sewer, now. No one has any use of Vailkai
river, once, of this sweet city.

Resources for CALICUT UNIVERSITY UG-FYUGP FIRST SEMESTER GENERAL FOUNDATION COURSE - AEC - ENGLISH LANGUAGE SKILLS FOR LITERATURES

CALICUT UNIVERSITY FYUGP FIRST SEMESTER

ABILITY ENHANCEMENT COURSE

ENGLISH LANGUAGE SKILLS FOR LITERATURES

Module 1. Perceptions –Words Beyond Borders

1. Introduction

2. My Immigration Story -Tan Le. Click here to watch the video

3. Recipes for Life-Amish Tripathi (Culinary Memoir)- Amish Tripathi

4. Introduction to Poetry – Billy Collins

Module 2. PROFESSIONAL NARRATIVES

5. Introduction

6. P.C. Musthafa at Harvard Kennedy School’(Interactive Session February 11, 2018) - Click here to watch the video

7. I Write Humour and Social Commentary Based on Indian Society Masala, says Anuja Chauhan-Bhavneet Singh Aurora - Click here to read

8. Mutual Destruction- Dorthe Nors

Module 3. World of Creativity

9. Introduction

10. BBC 2 Bookmark Charles Bukowski 18th March 1995 - Click here to watch the video

11. Kumbalangi Nights (2019)- Madhu C. Narayanan - Click here to read

12. The Face of Judas Iscariot- Bonnie Chamberlin - Click here to read

READINGS ON INDIAN LITERATURES Syllabus of Calicut University BA/B.Sc/B.Com Common Course English Third Semester Details

 ENG3 A05 - READINGS ON INDIAN LITERATURES

Module 1- Poem 

1. Small Towns and the River -- Mamang Dai

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2. Dream: Midnight -- Sridala Swami 

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3. What you do? -- Omprakash Valmiki 

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4. Munda & Kondh songs 

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5. (Other) Wordly Folk Tale - Geet Cathurvedi

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Module 2 - Short story and Fiction

1.Scorn - Bama 

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2.Two in the next world - Rajendra Yadav 

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3. The Bride’s Pyjamas- Akhtar Mohi- Ud-Din 

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4. The Night Train at Deoli - Ruskin Bond 

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Module3- Prose narratives

1. The Future of the Past - (Editorial) 

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2. On University Education (Speech excerpt) – Bhupesh Gupta 

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3.World as One Economic and Cultural Unit - Meghnad Saha

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Module 4 - Theatre and films 

1.Beyond the Land of Hattamala (play) - Badal Sirkar 

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2.The Burning – ( short film )- V.S Sanoj 

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3.That Day After Every Day –( short film)- Anurag Kashyap

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4. An Excerpt from Abhijnanasakuntalam 

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