IDENTITY CRISIS AND DIASPORA IN JUMPA LAHIRI’S DEBUT NOVEL ‘THE NAMESAKE’

Jhumpa Lahiri is famous as the acclaimed chronicler of the Bengali-immigrant experience. Jumpa Lahiri fictional characters reflected on the one hand their attachment to the motherland and on the other, their feeling of alienation and rootlessness. This present paper deals with her debut novel The Namesake which deals with theme of emotional and cultural struggle and duel identity crisis of Indian families who settled in abroad.The feeling of nostalgia, a sense of loss finds vivid description in The Namesake.