Immigrant Experience in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake

Jumpha Lahiri is one of the recent second generation expatriate writer, born in London in 1967 to Bengali parents. Jhumpha Lahiri‟s stories tells lives of the Indian in exile, of people navigating between the strict traditions they‟ve inherited and the baffling new world they must encounter every day. Lahiri‟s characters located in the diasporic space encounter the sense of identity crisis, alienation and exile.