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BUFFERING AND COIIPABBION: THE OLD LIFE AND THE NEWWe are all lonely ........ We'velearnt to plty one another forbeing alone. And we've learnt thatnothing remains to be discoveredexcept compassion.-- BRONOWSKIMalamud and Mukherjee stand for justlce. They evaluateall human actlons In terms of justice. As such the aspects ofthe mind affected by transgresslons and the concomitantreactlon agalnst the actlon or Inaction becomes related to theconcern of Malamud and Mukherjea Cor justlce on this earth. Inother words, thelr criminal world 1s also governed by a worldof lustice characterized by thelr ethlcal temperament. Almostall characters of Malamud are worried over the problem oflustice, and hls atheistic characters go to the extent ofquestlonlng the divine lustlce itself, In lts dispensation.Mukherjee's concern for lustice is also evldent in her wish todo "Justlce" to the vlslble world. Justlce is broadly two fold:external and internal-that punlshment which comes from outside1s mechanical and that punlshment whlch comes from wlthln 1ssplrltual (psycholoq~cal). This chapter will explore whyMalamud and Mukherjee seem to favour the spiritual to the