Impacts of Globalization on morality and Ethics

Abstract

This Paper deals with two contemporary English novels from India, The White Tiger (2008) by Arvind Adiga and One Night at the Call Center (2005) by Chetan Bhagat. Both are the product of the post-liberalization era. Both the writers have witnessed the industrialization, internationalization, liberalization, privatization and globalization in India. It will be no wrong to say that their novels are the product of their experience and understanding of the changes that took place after the 1991’s New Economic Policy.

India has great tradition of values, ethics and morality. These values, ethics and morality are deeply instituted in Indian cultures and religions. The great Indian religious texts like, the Vedas and the Upanishads, the Bhagwad Geeta, the Guru Granth Sahib, the Koran, the Dhammapada, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata are treasures of humanistic values, morals, and ethics. But unfortunately, at the present time the greatness of Indian culture, and its value system, its morality and ethics are degenerating. There are many factors which are responsible for the degeneration of morals but, Globalization as post-modern phenomenon fired up the process of changing morality.