Globalization and gender: Three South-Asian  women writing in English in contemporary times

Globalization refers to the complex interflow and interchange of capital,people, goods and particularly   “cyber  technology  that have now transformed the world into the cliché ridden term, the global village. Summing up Roger Rouse’s arguments  in his  own essay, “Globalization, Again,” Ali Behdad says  that according to Rouse  globalization means complicated circuits of exchange due to the border crossings of people, “the interconnectedness and interdependence of trade and monetary systems, marked by diasporic identities and fluid communities“ According to most historians the global era goes back to Columbus’s journey to the new world in 1492, the period beginning western hegemony in the world,but some historians like Janet Abu-Lughod however, put the date back two centuries, arguing that     a complex and intricate system of exchange and trade existed between Rome, China and India even in the 13^th century.   Be it as it may, the global order or culture that we know today  is  characterized by denationalization and yet warring ethnic identities,  the breakdown of the concept of the nation state, fragmented and confused national and cultural identities and also the dominance and supremacy of the English language which will be our concern in this paper here.