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Item Cultural Encounter of West and East: Valorizing Eastern Culture in Gita Mehta’s Karma Cola(Department of English, 2010) Kandel, RabiThe cultural encounter between the diametrically opposite east and west in the context of human relationships and cultural values constantly engage the readers of Karma Cola. The dichotomy lies in the modes of thought and the ways of life adopted by the people belonging to these cultures. In this connection, Mehta’s novel attempts to explore the impacts of spiritual and material values on human existence. While foregrounding the traditional spiritual heritage of Indian society Mehta sustains the orientalized image of the east. However, by making fun of the wave of foreigners swarming into India in the sixties in search of spiritual bliss, she underscores the very orientalist stereotypes. In doing so, her obvious focus is on the exploration of different aspects of Indian life and culture, it’s past and present.Item Global and the Local: Cultural Encounter in Jon Krakauer's into Thin Air(Central Department of English, 2014) Dahal, AshokJon Krauker’s Into Thin Air depicts the Cultural tension between the global and the local forces which coins the positive as well as the negative cultural tensions in the Mount Everest expedition of 1996 in reference to the close reading of the theory Global/ Local by Rob Wilson and Wimal Dissanayake. It explores how the characters remain in the trauma and the tension in the course of summiting Mount Everest which becomes the issue of globalization. In the text, Krauker is able to show the picture of the contemporary period in which the characters face different kinds of obstacles that are described through the climbers and the mountaineers from the global and the local presenting the issues of cultural tension along with the stereotypical images. The characters try their best either to resist or to adopt the global or the local forces. But in the process of adaptation or the resistance by the global or the local forces, they are disturbed. The respective forces are attracted and hegemonies by the different activities shown by the said people in the events of the journey which makes them in the position of hybridization. This comes to be the main cause to trigger the cultural tension between them.Item Negotiating Identities: Love-hate Relationship in Kamala Markandaya's Pleasure City(Department of English, 2006) Sharma, PrakashThe confrontation between western and eastern values in the periphery of human relationships and the cultural clash occurs in contact zone making the characters staying in 'in-between' space and later they are to come into negotiation. The humanity running through racial hatred has been incorporated inPleasure City. Tully, the central character in the novel, enjoys the love on the one hand and hatred on the other from the same level of people. In case of Tully and Rikki, both negotiate each other for their meaningful identity. It is reflected through their words, attitudes and behaviours.