Globalization in Nepal: A Case Study of Bhelahi Gaun and Samanantar Aakash

Abstract

Today’s world is undergoing such kinds of changes which transcend all kinds of boundaries. If we keep in mind the scenario of a small village even in an underdeveloped country like Nepal, we can see people using the goods contributed by the world’s top developed economy. If we observe people around the globe, we find them adopting, one or the other way, Western lifestyle. More amazing is their dependency on the labour policies of the Gulf countries. They are well aware of the changes coming around them and seem to be committed to these changes. And this scenario is abundantly depicted in one or the other way in Nepali literary practice as well. However, there are many others who contest such changes as they find them too intruding. In such a situation, a scrutiny of the change in terms of the globalizing process leaves us with a feeling that these changes are the results of the negotiations of the local and the global. This, however, does not seem to be sensible because neither the ‘global’ is global nor the ‘local’ is local. In fact, the ‘global’ is a form of Western contamination and the ‘local’ has always been more than it—the supralocal. So, this thesis argues that these changes are not the outcomes of symmetrical negotiations of the world’s so-called contestant cultures but are the trajectories of the West’s hegemonic domination.