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This paper tries to examine the interface of Western and Indian sub-continental cultures and the impact of cultural collisions in Khalid Hosseini’s The Kite Runner. This novel has been analyzed and investigated from the perspective of cultural collision and cultural wars. Interestingly, Hosseini has experienced the traumas of the imperialistic forces. He lived in different political environment but all experienced and witnessed an upsurge of cross cultural fertilization of societies which resulted into untold miseries of the people. The main focus has been on the themes of cultural dislocation, plight of men and women who are forces to leave their homes because of the imperialistic hostile policies of the colonizers. The loss of identity is a major factor in the protagonist of Hosseini. This paper has explored the various socio-economic forces which brought about tremendous changes in the cultural outlook. The rise of militancy in Afghanistan, the growth of patriarchal oppression, and the policy of liberalism, the galore of media and television industry are some of the factors that led to the growth of cultural collision.