In what ways can the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission help in improving the function of the power utility? Discuss the role of CERC in tariff setting
See Answer →How would the National Tariff Policy help in realizing the aims and objectives of Electricity Act 2003?
See Answer →Discuss the role of stakeholders in distribution reforms
See Answer →Describe the Electricity Act 2003.
See Answer →Write a rhyming poem full of fun and nonsensical images to make a small child laugh.
See Answer →Think of a situation that holds meaning for you and write down any images that the thought generates in your mind. Now write two verses using the same images to describe that situation.
See Answer →Imagine that you are a poem being analysed by teachers and students. Write a poem describing what it feels like to be cut open in such a manner.
See Answer →Write a short poem from a reader to a poet describing the difficulties that s/he may have experienced while attempting to understand a poem.
See Answer →Read the poem given below and answer the questions that follow:
Introduction to Poetry
BY BILLY COLLINS
I ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the light
like a color slide
or press an ear against its hive.
I say drop a mouse into a poem
and watch him probe his way out,
or walk inside the poem’s room
and feel the walls for a light switch.
I want them to waterski
across the surface of a poem
waving at the author’s name on the shore.
But all they want to do
is tie the poem to a chair with rope
and torture a confession out of it.
They begin beating it with a hose
to find out what it really means.
i) What are the various things that the poet compares a poem to?
ii) What image of a poem is evoked in the last few lines? What is this literary device called?
iii) Who is ‘they’ in the poem that the poet refers to? What does he actually want ‘them’ to do?
iv) Which lines in the poem tells you that a poem can be complicated and needs to be navigated carefully? Do you think it is appropriate? Give 2 alternative comparisons to indicate the same thing.
See Answer →Write either a Radio or TV talk on “Can Superstitions be rationalized?”
See Answer →Write out a script for a TV documentary on the following:
“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs but not every man’s greed”.−
See Answer →Write an interesting Public Service Announcement for TV on any one of the following topics. Suggest visuals, narration, SFX and dialogues wherever required:
a) Measures to avoid contracting Covid-19 b) Pay your taxes well in time.
c) Donate liberally to the Prime Minister’s Flood Relief Fund
See Answer →Write a Radio play revolving around any one of the following making use of narration, dialogues and SFX:
a) Every saint has a past, every sinner has a future b) Justice delayed is justice denied
c) Adversity is the best teacher of man
See Answer →Write a Radio documentary on any one of the following:
a) The pandemic that locked down the world
b) Entry of women in job areas that were formerly reserved for men
See Answer →Continue the following story and take it to a logical conclusion which could either be happy or tragic:
As the car moved downhill, something snapped and the driver realized with horror that the car brakes had failed. The other occupants of the car —–two young sisters, a mother with a baby and an elderly gentleman—sensed instinctively, what had happened when the driver started pumping the brakes to make them work. The circuitous road, with mountains on one side and deep ravines on the other, ran two kilometers down before it leveled out. But could the driver manage to maneuver the vehicle that far especially on the hair-pin bends? The passengers sat ashen-faced. Only the baby gurgled and chuckled playfully, oblivious to the peril they were in……
See Answer →Use the opening sentence given below to write a short story:
“Half an hour into the flight, the hi-jackers suddenly announced their presence in the plane.”
See Answer →Write a mystery/detective story around the following situation:
As the sun went down and darkness fell, he moved his wheelchair near the window. Lights came on in the flats across the street. Only a flat on the eighth floor, exact opposite to his, was still in darkness. Straining his eyes, he saw two men standing near the open window. To his utter horror, he saw one of them push the other out of the window
See Answer →Write a short story for children on one of the following:
a) Fortune favours the bold b) One good turn deserves another
c) Escape from a kidnapper’s hide-out
See Answer →Write a short story from the point of view of a stuntman who performs dare-devil stunts in films for a meager salary. The story could throw some light on what the man really feels about his job-whether he has any job-satisfaction or whether he is living on the edge just to keep himself and his family alive.
See Answer →Write a short feature on any one of the following topics:
a) Victory hath many a father, defeat is but an orphan
b) The habit of ignoring someone in favour of a mobile phone is harming human relationships today.
c) Two wrongs do not make a right.
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