INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PROFESSIONAL STUDIES

What Frued has called the ‘concealment of memory’ , and psychologists call the ‘ repression of memory’, has often been used as an effective literary ploy by diasporic writers to fight cultural angst and etch for themselves a place of belonging in their ever-shifting culturally reality. Nirad C. Chaudhuri, A.K.Ramanujan, Rohinton Mistry R.Parthasarathy , to name only a few, have all reflected in their works that amnesia of the past is a necessary evil to cope with cultural fragmentation. Amit Chaudhari is also a prominent member of this league of writers, and his A New World bears testimony to this.

Keywords: Amnesia; cultural fragmentation; past, post-colonial