The Grid of Exilic Actuality and Expedition in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake

Abstract

Jhumpa Lahiri’s coherent account has been greatly acknowledged and appreciated for scrutinizing the encounters of diasporic mass in the alienland. Jhumpa Lahiri being a lucid fictionalist, has heralded to the futuristic Indian narratives. Lahiri is impelled, at the same time perturbed by the state of the Americans of Indian origin along with their customs, ethos and the authority of lineage which secures an individual to his native land for she herself is an expatriate. The survival of the Ganguli’s clan for a stretch of thirty years is what accentuated in The Namesake. The novel sheds light on the incessant generational differences sustained by Gogol and Sonia with their parents Ashima and Ashoke. The confrontations which the newcomers experiences in the newly adopted land while hankering for a greater existence is what this research analysis divulges.