Study of Individual Personality and Cognitive Aspects of the Life of Immigrants in Multicultural Environment with Reference to Writings of Jhumpa Lahiri

This paper looks into the predicament of name and sense of identity and belongingness of the characters of the Indian origin and immigrants in the USA in The Namesake, the novel written by Jhumpa Lahiri. The Namesake makes it the best kind of ready reference to classify Diaspora as the term 'Diaspora' and its role in the present era, the life of first and second generation immigrants and their struggle for identity and belongingness are well articulated through the plot and characters. The fact that Jhumpa Lahiri is the child of Indian immigrants when she migrates from England (where she was born) to America makes her both a migrant and Diaspora writer. She has written on the Indian Diaspora and narrated stories that reveal the inconsistency of the concept of identity and cultural difference in the space of Diaspora in her works.