Social Issues In The Novel "How To Get Filthy rich In Rising Asia" By Mohsin Hamid

The novelist focuses on the social issues of the subcontinent in general and Pakistan in particular. The novel "How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia" is a description of an inborn poor boy who strives to become rich and wants to transform his depressed poor condition into happy and prosperous rich man in the dreams of the days of his childhood when Pakistan came into being. It is a story about a person who is struggling to get into business and trying to change fate of poverty-stricken family. The novel depicts the social issues such as unemployment, terrorism, security risks, corruption, poverty, class difference, bureaucracy, drug addiction, inflation, nepotism, and bribery. The person fights to change the condition but failed at the end. The term post colonialism refers to all aspects of culture that is influenced by the process of colonial occupation. Post-colonialism studies are a resistance to the domination and the legacies of colonialism. It deals with the oppressor and being oppressed. It narrates the social insecurity. This research sheds light on identity crisis, which is the main theme of many Pakistani novelists like Kamila Shamsie, H.M. Naqvi, and Mohsin Hamid.