In the recent decades, the cult of postmodernism has developed as a new platform to discuss the issues of struggle, conflicts, tension and contemporaneity of our contemporary time from a fresh and relevant perspective. It offers a potential impetus to explore man’s perennial quest for selfhood and its strong articulation. We are living in an age of extremes. There are the extremes of wealth, materialistic growth, extremes of violence and hatred in interpersonal relationships, extremes of idealism and practice and above all extremes of suppression and superficial craving for unprecedented individualism. Sometimes we feel that there is overarching of our demands and problems. There is notable shifting of determinants and implications of our social values in the present context. We are living in the era of abundance of scientific growth and technological advancement. But we are not free from outdated and irrelevant traditions and barbarism. Our age is simply defined as an age of paradox and dichotomy.

Postmodernism is a sensibility which is not the scenario after modernism but it is recognized as a continuation of modernism surfing its own past. There is no lamentation but it is generally punctuated with the footprints of a sort of celebration of the present situation. Whatever is, is.

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