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Item Affirmation of Indian Culture in R.K. Narayan's Talkative Man(Department of English, 2013) Mandal, Ashutosh KumarThis research paper attempts to focus on R. K. Naryan's novel Talkative Man as an affirmation of native Indian culture. The text has been analyzed as a cultural novel focusing on locale of the novel, Malgudi, a metaphor of Indian culture. The study provides an insight into the cultural milieu of Malgudi using Michel Foucault's notion of heterotopias. The study explores a significant conflict between native Indian culture and Western values. In the novel, Dr. Rann epitomizes the incursion of an outside force—western intrusion—into the Malgudi cultural values. The study ultimately employs the strategy of evoking the culture of humanity, an important characteristics of native Indian culture, so as to undermine the influence of Western culture on native culture. The significance of juxtaposing tradition and modernity as assessed as strategies for the affirmation of native India culture has been brought out in this brief research study.Item Cultural Ambivalence in V.S. Naipaul’s the Mystic Masseur(Department of English, 2006) Yadav, Ram NathAmbivalence is the central issue in V.S. Naipaul's The Mystic Masseur. Ganesh, who is protagonist of the novel, feels mixed ideas between his own Indian culture and colonizer's culture. Ganesh, an Indian Diaspora lives in the Trinidad where colonizer's culture is the root culture. He feels dilemma to adopt any particular language as well as profession so that he is tortured psychologically. Psychologically, he is tortured means his mind is not constant to choose his profession easily. His emotional feelings create various sorts of fluctuations in his life. That is why he neglects colonizer's culture to save his own Indian root culture. To fulfill his desire, he changes many occupations. As for example: From masseur to teacher, from teacher to writer and writer to politician. Why has he created such desires? In the beginning stage of life, he thinks that if he adopts the occupation related to Indian culture, he will save his own native culture in Trinidad. But ultimately, he comes to know that he can hardly succeed in his ambition without the acceptance of local politics. He is entrapped in the colonial governance so that he can solve the problems of Diasporas of Trinidad. He becomes such an ambitious figure that he ignores his promise and mimics but adopted the living of standard of colonizers.Item Mimicry in Ruskin Bond’s The Room on The Roof: A Case of Cultural Hybridity(Department of English, 2016) Shahi, Ram BahadurThe research brings into discussion to cultural mimicry as a colonial issue which occurs from both colonizer and colonized sides. It has been introduced in Ruskin Bond’s The Room on the Roof. The novel projects an Englishman who lives in India and in course of living there, he imitates Indian cultural pattern. It becomes his option for adjustment in new scenario. In this regard, cultural exchange takes place when there are two cultures together. During colonial period in India, both English and Indian were influenced by each other's cultural pattern. Though English ruler supposed to impose their cultural aspects, even they could not remain untouched from Indian cultures. Rusty represents the English culture, but he imitates Indian cultures while living in India. Being in India, he comes into contact with Indian people and he easily influences from their cultures. Being away from his culture, he feels alienated and frustrated. Therefore, in order to lessen his cultural distance and for the adjustment in new location, he adopts Indian culture.Item Projection of Orientalistic Ethos in Adiga’s The White Tiger(Faculty of English, 2013) Sintan, AmritAdiga’s The White Tiger shows how the Orientalistic biases are reflected in the contemporary depiction of India. Biases and organized distortion of Indian culture have taken place in the representation of contemporary India. On the one hand the shifting modernist sides of India are represented. On the other, the backward and superstitious sides of India are still in a powerful condition. In The White Tiger, India is shown struggling to come out of the cocoon of the poverty, backwardness and superstition. India is still bizarre and inscrutable to those whose mindsets are shaped and sustained by the flourishing grace of westernized modernity, globalization and technology transfer. By using the perspective of neo-orientalism, the researcher wants to show how the organized biases against India’s progressive march have sought deceptive forms. Though the author is an Indian, his way of handling the shifting horizons of Indian culture and history is largely affected by metropolitan mentality.Item Representation of the Indians in Bharati Mukherjee’s Miss New India(Central Department of English Kirtipur, Kathmandu, 2013-09) Timalsina, Ram PrasadThis thesis explores into the problematic depiction of the Indians and Indian culture in Mukherjee's Miss New India. Though India has achieved quantum leap in almost all the spheres of lives, Mukehrjee has not bothered to bring these realities in her novel Miss New India. This position of the author enables the researcher to argue that the psyche of the Indians as portrayed in her novel is no less than the psyche of the Indians described in the discourse of orientalists. As a metropolitan author who tries to cater to the taste and likings of western readers, Mukehrjee views Indians as though they are still confined in the layer of tradition, spirituality and abstract metaphysical fantasy. Far from managing the daily troubles of life, almost all the Indian characters in Miss New India take life and its challenges in a happy go lucky way. Carefree, impulsive and schizophrenic, the leading female protagonist Anjali Bose faces the dilemma of either to return to Gauripru or be the concubine of Mr. G.G. The setting of this novel serves as an evidence that India appears as the free- floating and inscrutable land not germane to fruit of modernity, technology transfer, booming economy and the benefits of globalization. To Mukherjee, Indians and India are no less than what the orientalists say in their respective discourse of orientalism. In this sense, Mukherjee's position as a 'metropolitan intellectual' is apparent in her depiction of the Indians in Miss New India.