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Item Constructing National Identity in Sachin Tendulkar‟s Playing It My Way(Department of English, 2018) Dhakal, ThamasCricket is one of the most popular games in India that brings people together in multi-religious, multi-ethnic, multi-lingual and multi cultural India. Cricket, which emerged due to British colonialism, has become an important element in the lives of people living in India. An over increasing popularity of cricket has connected India to the rest of the world. This has become a way of life of people ranging from the developing countries like Bangladesh to the developed countries like Australia. This has become a popular cultural not only in England, where the game originated, but also in the South Asian countries such as India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. The popularity of sports has led to the emergence of famous players like Sachin Tendulkar who is known for his extra-ordinary performance in cricket. Sachin Tendulkar’s autobiography Playing It My Way unfolds the role of cricket for building national consciousness and unity in India. This research paper explores how cricket has become instrumental to national integration in the multi-cultural India. The development in mass media and glamour in modern time valorized cricket so much that it is a common belief system for all Indians. It is a significant tool to explore Indian national and international identity across the globe. This research takes the ideas of Ray B. Browne’s concept of popular culture, Marshall W. Fishwick’s ‘heroes’ and ‘icons’ as two pillars of popular culture among seven pillars and Richard Dyer’s idea of how star is constructed and functions in the society are used as a theoretical tool to analyze Sachin Tendulkar’s autobiography. Thus this autobiography highlights celebration of cricket as a popular culture in India which enhances the nations’ identity.Item Role of capitalism in forming the city in Jonathan Lethem's Chronic city(Department of English, 2023) Regmi, BashantiThe entitled research analyses Jonathan Lethems Chronic City,2009 as Marxist text that explores the issue of capitalism arguing the role of the city as the economical interpretation. It analyses Jonathan Lethems vision of shape of the city as economical construction. This research paper particularly focuses on the different problematic, social, political and cultural depiction of the city and its constructions. This novel revolves around the story of Chase Insteadman, former child television star. He has a new role in life permanent guest on the Upper East Side dinner party circuit, where he is consigned to talk about his astronaut fiancee, Janice Trumbull, who is trapped on a circling space station. A chance encounter collides Chase with Perkus Tooth, a wily pop culture guru with a vicious conspiratorial streak and the best marijuana in town. Together and separately they attempt to define the indefinable , and enter into a quest for the most elusive of things: truth and authencity in a city where everything has a price. The author through this novel offers the idea that how the form of the city is built differently in a different era and how city is economically constructed.The paper concludes that capital roles are universally used to justify development of the city but the fact is that each culture develops specific city formation and ideas of cities appearance; these are transmitted through cultural, social and political elements and then internalised by the individual of the city that is exactly how theprocess of the forming and shaping city never nexus to one another rather is more subjective and socio - cultural matter. Keywords: City Forming, Capitalism, Social Cultural Construction, Popular Culture, Rightto the City