International Research Journal of Education and Technology

In the selected short stories from Dr. K L Chowdhury’s Faith and Frenzy: Short Stories from Kashmir, the present research paper aims to explore the experience of exile, psychological upheaval, familial struggles, and alienation of individuals and communities. The stories look at how the author deals with feelings of loss, terror, horror, alienation, and homelessness that ordinary Kashmiri Pandits have experienced as a result of the armed conflict in Kashmir and their subsequent exile from the valley. The vicissitudes of exile posed a serious threat to the self-respect and dignity of Kashmiri Pandits, who found themselves in unexpected and miserable situations.

Keywords: Alienation, Displacement, Exile, Homelessness, Psychological, Upheaval, Rootlessness.