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PUNE RESEARCH  

AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL IN ENGLISH

( ISSN 2454  -  3454  ONLINE ) (JIF 3.945)

 VOLUME 12, ISSUE - 01 ( JAN - FEB 2026 )

THEERTHA SATHIAN & Dr. SARASWATHY K.

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The digital age has rewritten the grammar of human experience, reformulating identity, relationships, emotional life, and social contact. In as much as digital technologies promise connectivity, efficiency, and empowerment, they also reproduce fragmentation, alienation, and emotional exhaustion. Drawing upon theories of digital modernity, identity formation, and affect studies, this paper critically examines how digital ecology reconfigures human experience in contemporary society. The paper discusses the impact of virtual spaces on selfhood and emotional life, the quality of face-to-face interpersonal relationships, and puts forward the argument that digital culture creates a fragmented and performative self. By foregrounding issues of digital isolation, emotional management, and mediated identity, the paper foregrounds the paradoxes of connectivity in the digital age and calls for a critical revision of human experience in conditions of technological saturation.

Keywords: Digital Age, Human Experience, Identity, Virtual Space, Emotional Life, Digital Modernity

SHARMISHTHA SUNIL KULKARNI

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The present paper examines the intricate interchange of space, place, and time along with the multiple chunks of physical and symbolic spaces in Anita Nair’s Mistress (2005). The novel is situating within the broader theoretical frameworks of spatiality, temporality, gender and the varied avenues of cultural studies. The narratives focus majority of the spaces through the characters like Radha, Shyam, Koman, and Christopher Stewart as they faced interchange of spaces and place to survive. Anita Nair’s Mistress (2005) depicts the real-life experiences of her characters as they serve high or low positions which affect the spaces and social status of women in society. She describes how Indian women are exploited even in modern times in their familial, cultural, social, conjugal, emotional, psychological, personal and private spaces. The writer in her narratives, highlights the genuine need for creating awareness with the varied spaces of women so that they can stand independently in the spatial world freedom. She tries to prove that women can change themselves while acquiring a variety of spaces to break the edges of cultural, social, and political domination in patriarchal space. She showcases her male and female characters in the space of larger society wherein they revolt against the various cultural, traditional, social, economic and spatial aspects of the conventional and traditional society. It marks the characters spatial journey towards the universe while changing the socio-cultural norms and conventional way of living.

Key Words: Space, Place, Time, Spatiality, Temporality, Gender Cultural Studies, Social, Political Domination, Patriarchal Space etc.