NCERT Class 12 Chapter 21 Kaliedoscope Question Answer। Broken Images। English Medium।

Thinking about the play

1. How genuine is the love that Manjula expresses for her sister?

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2. The sister does not appear in the play but is central to it. What

picture of her is built in your mind from references in the play?

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3. When the image says—‘Her illness was unfortunate. But

because of it, she got the best of everything’

(i) What is the nature of Manjula’s reply?

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(ii) How can it be related to what follows in the play?

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4. What are the issues that the playwright satirises through this

TV monologue of a celebrity?

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Taking about the play

1. ‘Broken Images’ takes up a debate that has grown steadily since

1947—the politics of language in Indian literary culture,

specifically in relation to modern Indian languages and English.

Discuss.

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2. The play deals with a Kannada woman writer who unexpectedly

produces an international bestseller in English.

(i) Can a writer be a truly bilingual practitioner?

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(ii) Does writing in an ‘other tongue’ amount to betrayal of the

mother tongue?

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Appreciation

1. Why do you think the playwright has used the technique of

the image in the play?

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2. The play is called a monologue. Why is it made to turn dialogic?

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3. What is the posture the celebrity adopts when the camera is

on and when it is off?

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