A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF DISPLACEMENT AND TRAUMA CAUSED BY FLOODS IN PUNAJAB AND ISRAEL-PALESTINE CONFLICT PORTRAYED IN HALA ALYAN’S NOVELS

Abstract

Human life is full of unpredictable events and calamities. These calamities might be natural, man- made or a combination of both. As human beings have played a pivotal role in damaging the nature. The calamities which were lately called the natural are indirectly been influenced by mankind up to a large extent. The calamity might be natural like floods, landslides, earthquake, tsunami, pandemic etc. It can be man- made like war, riots, partition, genocide etc. In both types of calamities mankind suffers. The normal human life gets topsy-turvy. People face trauma, displacements and pain along with the loss of their family, homes and belongings. The present research paper is a comparative study of trauma and displacement caused by the floods in the Indian state of Punjab in 2025 and the Israel Palestine conflict caused by the declaration of independent state of Israel in 1948 and 1967 which serves as a backdrop of Hala Alyan’s novels.