Reflection of Gender Issues in Indian Diasporic Novels

The paper discusses how the modern Indian diasporic novels present the situation of man-woman relationship in liberal vs. conservative cultures Paradoxically those characters in these novels who are bound by the cultural conservatism remain stronger and have more secured feeling in society than those who live in modern secular society like in America having freedom to whatever they want to do . But these are the women who suffer from identity crisis more than anybody else. It defines the meaning and scope of Indian diasporic novels and then discusses how the women characters are depicted in Salman Rushdie‟s „ Midnight‟s Children and Jhumpa Lahiri‟s „ The Namesake‟.