ABSTRACT

Many concepts associated with ‘postmodernism’ include scepticism, subjectivism, relativism, anarchism, uncertainty, difference, alterity, incredibility, hybridity, indeterminacy fragmentation, deconstruction and so on and on. The only certainty about postmodernism, paradoxically, is uncertainty. We cannot decide what is true or false, what is authentic or fraud, what is valuable or valueless, what we should do or should not do, or what we should believe or not believe. That the postmodern challenge turns authority dubious also breaks trust in the society. The master narratives and traditions are no longer reliable. We are living in a world where everything old is under deconstruction and everything new is under construction yet. Nevertheless, concerning how old is old or how new is new, no definite answer can be made.