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Item Existential Crisis in Samrat Upadhyay’s Buddha’s Orphans(Department of English, Prithvi Narayan Campus, Pokhara, 2019) Paudel, Deba RajAs existent being, a man identifies with the word through his thoughts and perceptions. He is driven to seek meaning by the every complexities and contradictions of existence. The sense of lack of meaning or purpose is very apparent in twentieth century literature, philosophy and art. The thesis postulates’ critical question whether life is worth living or should be voluntarily terminated. Being brought face to face with the absurd world, a person longs for answers that will clarify his position and the purpose in this universe, but being unable to find satisfactory explanations he succumbs despair. The futile existence derives a person to the brink of despair and makes himself to contemplate suicide out of sheer despondency and hopelessness. It also stresses that each human being is thrown in to world in which pain, frustration, sickness, contempt, malaise and death predominately exists. This problem has been highlighted in Albert Camus's The Realization of Absurdity. This issue has been highlighted in the novel Buddha's Orphans. Through the analysis of major characters, the study aims to disclose how anxiety in general, occupies a major place in the existential spare of life in twentieth century. It also focuses that existential crisis revel in minor and major characters in Upadhyay's novel.Item Struggle for Existence in Kamala Markandaya’s A Handful of Rice(Department of English, 2009) Karna, Pravin KumarThe present research basically focuses on the issue of existential crisis of the protagonist of Markandaya’s A Handful of Rice, Ravi. The central character Ravi, a representative of universal adolescent, under adverse circumstances faces so many difficulties and struggles much to find his identity from the very beginning of the novel. Coincidentally, he enters into the house ofApu while trying to escape the arrest. He had joined the exodus from arid village to an over-populated, proverty- ridden city with a great hope to improve his pitiable plight. But unfortunately, he goes to the underworld to petty criminals. He starts working as an Apu's apprentice and falls in love with Apu's daughter Nalini and decides to leave all the criminal activities and live prestigious life. But the circumstances--the scarcity of everything and mainly the death of his son, Raju--make him impatient and violent and he is inexorably drawn towards dangerous climax again. So, he has ‘angst’; in order to assert his individuality, he leaves his society, rejoins the criminal gang by using his freedom of choice. In short, he does not listen to others but the voice of his own heart. While doing so, he does not feel any regret.