Diasporic communities have historically maintained—either actively or passively—their ethnonational identities, be it in the case of classical diasporas such as the Jews or Armenians or the case of more modern diasporas such as the Indians or other South Asians. However, the ethnonational identities of diasporic communities have strengthened significantly in recent times as a result of the global forces such as the Internet that created and recreated the existing and newer ways of transnationalism and ethnonationalism. The study of the Indian diaspora is inherent because of the fact that these global forces have drastically changed the ethnonational identity of Indians in the diaspora. There are a plethora of factors that played an important role in this process of transformation. This article tries to examine two of the most significant factors that strengthened the ethnonational identity, such as the dynamic changes in the Indian government policy towards diaspora and the role of the Internet that facilitates the youth to play a prominent role in this neo-diaspora.
This paper examines Samit Basu’s Chosen Spirits (2020), a speculative narrative, which depicts a world of extreme surveillance and dystopia, technology-controlled, and the deep differences between the privileged and the underprivileged. The Indian version of the novel is considered for this paper. Through this work of dystopian fiction, this paper understands how this pandemic could accelerate the world into a living dystopia, and how dystopian fiction speculates the futures awaiting us. This paper is an effort to understand the privileged spaces and power structures that ensure the marginalised populations are bound to the margins, and how, a pandemic could lead to the further erasure of the unprivileged, until and unless, the ones on the comfortable side of the power structures, take a stronger stance.
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