| ISSN: 2583-3812 | ISSN: 2583-3812JOURNAL ARTICLE
Keywords: Rural life, Culture identity, Social Change, Tradition, Modernity, Social discrimination
Abstract: This paper deals with class racism and cultural identification in the modern society. We analyse the Khair’s The Bus Stopped with the theme of cultural identity, social change, tradition and modernity in contemporary in India. Through these perspectives, we investigate how to change culture identity and social class discrimination and make a connection between humans and modernity in contemporary society. This research is contributing to the fields of a study of class, tradition and modernity in society, culture and social change. Moreover, the extreme conditions of poverty and deprivation lead foreigners to look with bewilderness, how society is moving on its journey in time. The Bus Stopped depicts the story of a bus journey on a particular route (from Gaya to Phansa) and a kaleidoscope of Indian life. In this work, there are certain characteristic features of narrative which highly raises the regional spirit of region, culture and class. The aspirations of middle-class families and the village-town division are creating, individual grief and damaging inter-community relations. By analysing how cultural identity and social class have engaged with these themes. We can insights remarkably into the challenges and opportunities facing contemporary Indian society. Indian’s diversity, rich history and evolving existing cultural and heritage make it complex and unique. India’s modernization as balancing tradition and modernity where cultural values are shaping and bringing up in the society.
Article Info: Received: 03 Feb 2026; Received in revised form: 08 Mar 2026; Accepted: 12 Mar 2026; Available online: 15 Mar 2026
DOI: 10.22161/ijeel.5.2.3
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