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The novel of Manjushree Thapa’s Seasons of Flight presents a provocative and pessimistic picture of the human society. Through her novel, she expresses poignantly the psychological dilemma of the protagonist in an inimical society. She delineates the predicament of the protagonist caught in the vicious circle of irremediable isolation in the modern life. She shifts her vision from the external world to the inner reality and her novel explores the complexities of the inner world. Manjushree Thapa grew up in Canada, Nepal and the United States. Although educated in the West, she found her calling in giving voice to the people of Nepal through her writing and attempts to depict the plight of the individuals bereft of love and being alone in this globalized world. Thapa’s personal experiences made her sensitive towards the strong desire to evocatively present the dilemma of modern displaced individual. The paper presents the negation and the aimlessness is due to nostalgic preference for the native culture and the consequent failure to accommodate to the new form of culture.