Chetan Bhagat also expresses the cultural diversities. The novelist while talking about marriage also explores the social issues like dowry in traditional marriages and the shifting paradigms of matrimonial alliances in multicultural and multinational societies. The story is about a couple, Krish and Ananya, who hail from two different states of India, Punjab and Tamil Nadu respectively, are deeply in love and want to get married. 2 States: The Story of My Marriage is partly an autobiographical novel. A simple but realistic novel, brilliantly explores the encounter of 2 States, Punjab and Tamil Nadu. Day after day he attends funerals in the townships. The tribal chief in Ways of Dying has used a narrative of a warrior. Mayai Waziri wa Maradhi, yaani kitisho kinachosimulia siasa. In Mdas novel, culture seems to be working both in its aggressive form and palliative form. The novel 2 States deals with the cross-cultural encounters and deals with different experiences. In Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda's acclaimed first novel, Toloki is a 'professional mourner' in a vast and violent city of the new South Africa. Violence, and Transitionality in Zakes Mdas Ways of Dying. In his novel Ways of Dying (1995) Mda again focuses on South African social. Chetan Bhagat's novel 2 States focusses on how a particular phenomenon, the notion of love and marriage related to the concept of culture and society with its customs. Zakes Mda 1948-(Born Zanemvula Kizito Gatyeni Mda) South African playwright. Different characters and incidents portrayed in the novel gives us a vibrant picture about the different culture and tradition prevailing in India. Zakes Mda Elly Williams The Missouri Review 28.2 (2005) 62-79 Zanemvula Kizito Gatyeni Mda, better known as Zakes Mda, is an internationally acclaimed South African poet, playwright. Zakes Mdas Ways of Dying tells of his odyssey from a rural community to the vibrant outskirts of a contemporary South African city, where the beautiful and tragic Noria helps him to heal the past.

He has represented young, modern Indian youth and culture. He is one of the most popular contemporary Indian novelists in Indian English Literature. This paper deals with the culture issues in Chetan Bhagat 2 States-the story of my marriage.

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