Read the given passage and answer the four questions that follow:-
The seed of Indian Writing in English was sown during the period of the British rule in India. Now the seed has blossomed into an evergreen tree, with fragrant flowers and ripe fruits. The fruits are being tasted not only by the native people, but they are also being 'chewed and digested' by the foreigners. It happened only after constant care, pruning and feeding.
Indian English Literature is an honest enterprise to demonstrate the ever rare gems of Indian Writing in English. From being a singular and exceptional, rather gradual native flare-up of geniuses, Indian Writing has turned out to be a new form of Indian culture and voice in which India converses regularly. Indian writers - poets, novelists, essayists, and dramatists have been making momentous and considerable contributions to world literature since the Pre - Independence era. The past few years have witnessed a gigantic prospering and thriving of Indian English Writing in the global market.
Indian English Literature has attained an independent status in the realm of world literature. Wide ranges of themes are dealt with by Indian writing in English. While this literature continues to reflect Indian culture, tradition, social values and even Indian history through the depiction of life in India and Indians living elsewhere, recent Indian English fiction has been trying to give expression to the Indian experience of modern predicaments.
What does the enterprise of Indian English Literature exhibit?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → The ever rare gems of Indian Writing in English
The passage says, "Indian English Literature is an honest enterprise to demonstrate the ever rare gems of Indian Writing in English." To demonstrate is to show or exhibit, so the enterprise exhibits these rare gems, the finest works.
Why the Other Options are Incorrect?
Option 1: How Indian writing in English enjoys foreign readership. — Incorrect. Wrong focus: the passage does say foreigners now "chew and digest" its fruits, but that is part of the tree image, not what the enterprise exhibits.
Option 2: Its attainment of an independent status in the realm of world Literature — Incorrect. Wrong part of the passage: the independent status is a separate statement in the last paragraph, not the purpose of the enterprise.
Option 3: How it is prospering and thriving in the global market — Incorrect. Wrong part of the passage: this describes what the past few years have witnessed, not what the enterprise demonstrates.