TILL now the intergenerational conflict has been discussed everywhere and across the globe as a smoldering issue, detaching the two generations of the different age groups.

The situation is, however, caused by the cultural and ideas mismatch between the two generations, which ultimately leads towards the dissonance and conflict between the two cohorts. Nevertheless, another significant problem is arising within this domain in the developing societies especially as the intra-generational conflict; signifying the conflict and cleavage not between the two different generations but within the same generation.

It is human nature and also advised to interact and join the company of coevals or the generation from whom one belongs, because it is the group or generation where an individual can wholeheartedly share his privacies and secrecies without any hesitation. But the dilemma exists in the underdeveloped and developing societies, where members of the same generation are quite different in terms of education, awareness and updatability. The ideas within the same age group are so contradictory and conflicting that they could many times lead to terrible ends and put the smooth social relations at stake, ironically. This gap is becoming more embarrassing particularly for those who are critical and rational in their........

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