English Proficiency Programme

Sources of passages used in the PELT course


Session

Item

Title

Author

2-3

Illustration

Nagarlaxmi (Bangla)

R. Tagore

2

Assignment

from "Rajarshi" (Bangla)

R. Tagore

3

Assignment

from "Rashmi Rathi" (Hindi)

Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar'

11

Illustration

Preface to "Kaaghaz kee Nao" (Hindi)

Krishan Chander

20

Illustration

Frankenstein's Monster

Mary Shelley

21

Assignment

from "The Speckled Band"
Pana Rakkha (Bangla)

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
R. Tagore

26

Assignment

from "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

Douglas Adams

28

Assignment

from "Paradiso" (Italian)

from Preface to "Shekhar: Ek Jeevani" (Hindi)

Dante Alighieri
(Translated by Allen Mandelbaum)
Sachchidanand Heeranand Vatsyayan 'Agyeya'

32-38

Illustrations

from "The Resident Patient" and "A Study in Scarlet"

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

39

Illustration and Assignment

from "Antigone" (Greek)

Sophocles (Oxford Translation)

40

Assignment

from "Jane Eyre"

Charlotte Bronte


- Bhaskar Dasgupta