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Lets talk on Postmodernism...

Academicians in the west have started talking about the death of Postmodernism and what after,  long back. As with all other western theories, it ll take sometime for them to reach our parts of the country and be the most often referred topic of the Doctoral Thesis. In India can we anticipate the rise of postmodernism or is it already here? Browsing through the net, one can find a couple of articles on pomo (hereafter ll be referred so) from the research scholars of India . Some of them ve probed into the roots of pomo here... Can pomo shake the Indian scenario as it did with the western world?? No b'cos Indians are postmodernists since ages. Never ve we believed in univocal truths, we never had 'author gods', our metanarratives were made of 'micro narratives'.. The things which i may be referring here can sound as clichés to many.. But here in the context of pomo those features sounds amazing. 1) No univocal truths : ...