LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 13:8 August 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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Bhagat Unfolds Multicultural Realities through 2 States

Arvind Jadhav, M.A. (Eng.), NET, M.A. (Ling.), Ph.D. Scholar

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‘Culture’ can be studied through literature and ‘literature’ can be well appreciated by cultural understanding, I propose. This paper focuses on the multiculturalism in fiction with reference to contemporary author Chetan Bhagat’s 2 States: The Story of My Marriage (Published in 2009). It deals with how multicultural ground realities affect ‘Generation-Y’1 greatly. Preliminaries and methodological considerations discuss the background, objective and the scope of the paper, then it clarifies the mono Vs. multiculturalism. Further, after Indian ‘unity in diversity’ sketch, it analyzes the fiction from cultural perspective and ends with the essence.

1. Preliminaries

Let’s start with the concept of the ‘Culture’ first. The New Britannica Encyclopaedia (2007: 784) put forth ‘Culture’ as, ‘the integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief and behavior. Culture, thus defined, consists of language, ideas, beliefs, customs, taboos, codes, institutions, tools, techniques, works of art, rituals, ceremonies, and other related components’

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Arvind Jadhav, M.A. (Eng.), NET, M.A. (Ling.), Ph.D. Scholar
Assistant Professor of English
Y. C. College of Science
Karad 415124
Maharashtra
India
arvind.linguistics@gmail.com
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