MULTICULTURALISM IN HARI KUNZRU?S TRANSMISSION.

Literature is the art of life. It is fundamentally an expression of life through the medium of language. Literature reflects an interest in the world of reality as well as imagination. Hari Mohan Nath Kunzru is an Indian author and one of the best known Diastolic writers in Indian English Literature. His novels mostly deal with multiculturalism, globalization, technology, political and social problems, terrorism, diaspora and cultural identity. His second novel ?Transmission? is one of the first and most timely novels about multiculturalism and globalization in all its diverse manifestations. Multicultural politics have undoubtedly proved useful in reconfiguring the public discourse of former colonial powers such as Britain as they adapt to mass immigration, particularly in opening up institutions and providing a framework by which those who have no direct social experience of immigrants and their second generation kids can interact with them. However in recent years many of the more challenging aspects of multiculturalists discourse, particularly in its celebration of hybridity and the formation of new identities have been sidelined in favors of those aspects which are easy to deliver as policy ?community relations? conducted as a dialogue between the Centre and National representatives of supposedly stable and fixed ?minorities? or which suit prevailing political fashions. Transmission is a political novel, centers on the story of Arjun Mehta, a geeky day dreaming Indian Software Engineer who believes in the corny promises of the corny Bollywood film industry. Parallel to Arjun?s story is to that of Guy Swift, the seemingly well to do English CEO of an advertising company, and his struggle to keep his business going as the virus spreads in the company.