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Item Culture Clash and Duality of Youth in Chetan Bhagat's 2 States: The Story of My Marriage(Department of English, 2023) Gaire, SirjanaThis present study points out into the portrayal of a Duality of Youth Culture in Chetan Bhagat's novel 2 States: The Story of My Marriage. The protagonists Krish and Ananya serve to explore the complexities of cultural identity and the unique challenges faced by young individuals as they navigate the conflicting expectations of traditional values and modern aspirations in India. These two central characters come from different cultural backgrounds, Krish being a Punjabi from Delhi and Ananya a Tamil Brahmin from Chennai. Their love story serves as a lens through which Bhagat explores the complexities of cultural identity in contemporary India. Instead, they undergo internal conflicts and external pressures and they must reconcile their desires with the traditions and values passed down by their families. Because of the important cultural norms and values, Krish and Ananya can easily change their way of lives. The reflection of a journey of Krish and Ananya’s personal experiences, conflicts, and their attempts to negotiate their diverse identities and cultural homogenization. Through the valuable theoretical insights provided by Paul Du Gay in Cultural Identity Theory it the captivating dynamics of contemporary youth in India is shown. The dual nature - a fusion of traditional values and modern influences is prevalent in modern day youths. Key Words: Cultural Clash, Identity, Marriage, Youth, DualityItem Illusion of Modernity in Joseph Conrad’s Selected Short Stories(Department of English, 2021) Kafle, SumanThis research paper examines Joseph Conrad’s selected short stories, with a special attention to their representation of modernity. For this, the paper uses concept of modernist philosophy regarding marriage, love and youth along with “The power of Myth” as methods to cave into the narrative of the stories through analytical methodology. Conrad's stories reflect the ambiguous conditions of people and male heroism due to rise of modernity. With regard to this fact, this study assumes that due to initiation of modernistic prospective people fall in the contradict mood they cannot completely get rid of traditional norms and values, nor can they adapt to the purely modern situation. Unclear path can lead to intolerable or uncontrollable problems without knowing its further results. Thisproject hypothesizes that due to initiation of modernistic prospective people fall in the contradict mood they cannot completely get rid of traditional norms and values, nor can they adapt to the purely modern situation. Due to long lasting effects of modernity, they are unable to deal with such problems. So, to bring the issue of: marriage, love and youth of modern era into forefront, this paper highlights the isolated and ambiguous situations in the stories and then analyses them thoroughly. The stories are: “The Lagoon”, “Youth”, and “Amy foster”. Similarly the later part of the paper explores the socio-political circumstances and the author’s standpoint to depict the real condition of society. My entry point is concept about love, marriage and youth in modern era this took me to myth, male heroism along with colonial wave and it’s far reaching consequences. Thus, my central research concern is to examine how modernistic prospective creates illusion regarding love, marriage and youth in modern society. Key Words: Modernism, illusion, duality, myth, male heroism,Item Private Vs Public Self in Arthur Miller‘s A View from the Bridge(Department of English, 2021) Chalise, MohanThe research explores how self is characterized in Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge in order to have a better/deeper understanding of the self (private vs public). The quest for self is expressed through an obsessive yearning for a young lady, which has been lost due to various reasons. Miller in A View from the Bridge depicts the struggle between the self of an individual and the public self the individual is compelled to put on as a mask which is analyzed via Freud’s psycho-sexual and Ericson’s psycho-social spectacle of psychoanalysis. The outmost reality of escape from tragic duality of self is to accept the fragments of happiness and sadness since there is inevitability of complication and unpredictability in a dramatic world of indifference which is devoid of concern for those less fortunate. Such is the case of the tragic protagonist, Eddie Carbone who as a victim of both social and psychological system paves his own way to annihilation owing to his tragic flaw of obsession with his niece, Catherine. The play has interwoven the crisis of self in the life of individuals and broader changes taking place in the American society. Moreover, the study tries to display the intersection of psychological, social and emotional factors to which an individual self is subjected. Key Words: Betrayal, destruction, duality, identity, obsession, psychoanalysis, search, self, society