Exploration of Cultural Conflict and Equilibrium in Chetan Bhagat's Two States: The Story of My Marriage

Abstract

This paper entitled Exploration of Cultural Conflict and Equilibrium in Chetan Bhagat’sTwo States: The Story of My Marriage tags and dissects the forces of culture, conflict, cultural diversity, relativism, sociocultural traditions, tolerance, multiculturalism, intercultural marriage and equilibrium in the protagonists named Krish, Ananya and other characters. The study enthralls around the multiculturalism such as sociocultural practices, unity, cultural diversity, amalgamation and national unity of this contemporary time and all these all Bhagat testifies in his novel. This research also inspects confusion between traditional culture and modern culture colliding in the critique of protagonists’ circumferences and other events inside the novel observing the father son relationship, struggle and freedom. This research assumes theoretical insights associated with multiculturalism and cultural conflict elaboratedby Bhikhu Parekh, Patrick West, Jonathan H. Turner and Alexander Grewe. This research sums up that Bhagat’s novel uncovers the trends and characteristics of life living culture of the young generation, sociocultural values and cultural relativism in different situations emerging in modern times.