![]() The border of a nation usually orients the convergence of people with a geopolitical territory and notions of a common history, nationality, identity, language and culture. ![]() The salience of the border emerges from a confrontation between the anthropological idea of confined cultures with a recent focus on the flow of people and ideas across national borders. By ‘border’ we usually mean a boundary to impose an order. The study of border is a seminal area of critical discussion in today’s globalized and cosmopolitan world. "The legacy of postcolonial angst today appears to have settled into a potentially numbing acceptance of bi-or multi-cultural euphoria."(Bose, Brinda,15) Amitav Ghosh can be called a master writer of multiculturism as almost all of his novels give a picture of mixed peoples, cultures and traditions. Multiculturalism is the cultural diversity of communities and the policies that promote this diversity. It is a multi-colour culture having the colour of both-the colonizer and the colonized. ![]() After the dark clouds of colonialism, a bright rainbow of cultures comes up in the postcolonial sky. The time period, after the death of colonialism was the transitional period of cultures. The post-colonial reading offers us the element of 'Multi-culturism' that is very good to go with the postcolonial situations. To quote: His description bring a lost world to life, from the evocatively imagined opium factory, the intricacies of women's costumes and the lovingly enumerated fare on the opulent dining tables of the era, to the richly detailed descriptions of the Ibis and its journey.(Tharoor, Shashi,202) A major aspect of post colonialism is the rather violent like unbuffered contact or clash of cultures as an inevitable result of former colonial times, the relationship of the colonial power to the (formerly) colonized country, its population and culture and vice versa seems extremely ambiguous and contradictory. His The Shadow Lines will be remembered for its imperishable stamp of multiculturalism. His writings reveal his in-depth knowledge about colonialism and especially about multiculturalism, which serve as an eye-opener to all the academicians, who wish to explore different areas in their quest for excellence. ![]() Amitav Ghosh is not only a great scholar but also a person who strives hard to contribute something substantial to Indian fiction. ![]()
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