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When traveling to a foreign country, visitors may often imagine how strange or different life can be compared to their home. In the stories The Old Lady and The Aliens, Ruth Jhabvala introduces the foreign experience through different perspectives and attitudes of the protagonists. In the story The Old Lady, the reader is entertained by the viewpoint of an elderly Indian woman, who is constantly joyous and happy even when he children quarrel. In the story The Aliens, the reader is entangled in the distress and frustration of a youthful English woman along with her husband’s Indian family. Despite the obvious differences between The Old Lady and The Aliens, Jhabvala provides depth of foreign affairs through multiple similarities shared between the main characters: judgement by antagonists, imagery and the protagonists positive representation.

“They wept together, for the things they now knew.”(104) The last sentence of the first story in Interpreter of Maladies, reveals the cruelty of the elapsed romance in a marriage. In the two collections, A Temporary Matter and The Third and Final Continent, Jhumpa Lahiri demonstrates that a marriage can be either uplifting or discouraging depends on the mindset held by the couple and the strength of human bonding. Lahiri emphasizes the significance of mindset and human bondings through the ending of the two stories. The endings of the two stories are polar opposite : In A Temporary Matter, Shukumar and Shobha weeps for the termination of their relationship; The Third and Final Continent, by contrast, the protagonist(MIT) enjoys a fairytale-like

The new worlds emerging from such phenomena go beyond the personal, for the country they left behind is changed as well as the one to which they go. The Indian diaspora contains a high number of professionals, making for a global expatriate community with a strong measure of influence and clout. Chaudhuri’s novel is a gently told, convincing glimpse into the life of one ordinary non-resident Indian, stated in deceptively simple, elegantly rendered.

Such diasporic writers are Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, Aravind Adiga, Jhumpa Lahiri, Chitra Banerjee. Jhumpa Lahiri is also one of the diasporic writers. She obviously described the emotional pains of the diasporic people in her works especially by her earlier compilation of nine stories under the title Interpreter of Maladies. In which she debate collection of stories, she dealt with the immigrant maladies. Each of her story talk about the different kind of agony of the lives of Indians or Indian

This dissertation critically analyzed the issues related to identity, culture and empowerment in the representation of Diasporic experience in Anita Desai Bye Bye Blackbird (1985) and Jhumpa Lahiri The Namesake (2003). Diasporic writing is the outcome of variance between dislocation and relocation, a lost sense of belongingness and alienation, not only from the original home but also from the self. Almost all the Diasporic writers have exhibited an irresistible concatenation to their homelands. These writers often feel deprived and alienated from their roots, language and culture.

Interpreter of Maladies is a collection of fictional short stories by highly acclaimed author Jhumpa Lahiri. The book illustrates the lives of first- and second- generation Indian immigrants as they face the challenges and struggles of living a culturally conflicted life in the United States. Lahiri herself was a part of an immigrant household. She was born in London in 1967. Her mother and father were both immigrants from India. They moved to the United States when she was two years old. Because her mother wanted her to grow up aware of her Indian, specifically Bengali, heritage and traditions, they frequently visited their relatives in Calcutta. Although Interpreter of Maladies is considered fictional, critics suggest that it is also autobiographical because most of them are adapted from her friends’, parents’, and acquaintances’ lives. This paper will focus on three specific stories in the book namely: When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine, Mrs. Sen’s, and The Third and Final Continent. The aforementioned stories deal with the struggles and challenges faced by most immigrants, specifically, how they deal with the clashing cultures of their old heritage and their new world. Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies illustrates that although migration entails struggles and sacrifices, the expatriate characters decided to move to a foreign land because of their hopes for a better future, but the strong sense of attachment to their Indian heritage made it difficult for some to adapt to their

The book, Interpreter of Maladies, by Jhumpa Lahiri, is a collection of short stories that shows the culture and immigrant experience of Indians. Lahiri paints a picture of what the Indian diaspora was like. We are able to step into the footsteps of the book’s characters, and we can see what it was really like to live during their time.

Jhumpa Lahiri’s collection of short stories ‘Interpreter of Maladies’ is told from many perspectives: the perspectives of immigrants making their way; of children growing up; and of communities and the people within them. In fact, community as a theme stood out to me the most as a common thread throughout her stories, though it was approached in different ways and from different perspectives. The stories ‘The Treatment of Bibi Haldar’ and ‘When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine’ both approach this theme through different eyes. ‘The Treatment of Bibi Haldar’ tells the story of a girl who depends entirely on her community for support, both physical and emotional, because of her strange illness, and ‘Mr. Pirzada’ explores the life of a young girl who is a part of two communities; her American friends and her parents’ Indian friends.

Jhumpa Lahiri is an author who has been dubbed as a completely unique writer with her own style, as her collection of short stories in her novel Interpreter of Maladies, allows readers to feel sympathetic for the characters in her complex yet relatable storylines. The overarching theme behind her stories is how people experience the twists and turns of life, as they are faced with countless hardships, whether it is immigration issues, spouse issues, or people just trying to search for happiness. However, each character in the different storylines all have such diverse backgrounds that readers may feel sympathetic to a variety of Jhumpa Lahiri’s characters. One character that stands out from the rest is Boori Ma, written in the story of “A Real

Since a young Indian writer Jhumpa Lahiri released her first book "Interpreter of Maladies," the author and her book's characters have attracted a lot of attention. The nine stories of the "Interpreter of Maladies" are filled with details of Indian culture which help the author to present the life of Indians living in America in a new sophisticated manner and assist Lahiri in her attempt to reveal earlier unfamiliar to many people aspects of the everyday lives of the Indian immigrants. In the story "Sexy" we see Dev, a first generation Indian American who has a family, but in spite of that fact initiates an affair on the side. In his search for fascination in life Dev gets involved in a relationship with Miranda, a young and pretty

Jhumpa Lahiri’s short stories in Interpreter of Maladies all deal with some aspect of belonging to more than one cultural group, whether it be Indian, American, etc. Though they each attempt to compromise with the changes in their life, whether it be moving to a different country or having an arranged marriage, the characters are disconnected from their identities or loved ones. A large part of American and Indian culture is marriage, whether it be arranged or of the person’s choice. But marriage is not an easy thing to handle if you aren’t prepared for it, and this is very prevalent in Interpreter of Maladies. Two examples this essay will speak about are Twinkle in This Blessed House and the narrator in The Third and Final Continent.

In “Interpreter of Maladies”, Jhumpa Lahiri uses both art and language as symbols of the difficulty of belonging when stuck between two or more cultures. Born in London from Indian parents, then raised in the United States, Lahiri puts in this story her own feeling or removal into the characters: The Das, visiting a country that has become more foreign than homely; and Mr. Kapasi, who struggles to claim his identity through language and translation.

Bharati Mukherjee is Indian-born American Novelist and short story writer. She went to America for her higher studies, and then lived in Canada with her husband Clark Blaise for a few years. In 1980 she went back to America where she currently lives. She is one of the writer, who would rather be considered as being from her adopted homeland, rather than as an Indian Expatriate writer. Mukherjee’s fiction portrays expatriate characters and their experiences. Mukherjee‟s works focus on the phenomenon of migration, the status of new immigrants, and the feeling of alienation often experienced by expatriates as well as on Indian women and their struggle. Her own struggle with identity first as an exile from India, then an India, then as Indian expatriate in Canada, and finally as a immigrant in the united States has lead to her current contentment of being an immigrant in a country of immigrants. Bharathi Mukherjee is called as an

NayantaraSahgal is one of the distinguished Indo English writers who write in the stream & national consciousness. She is a prolific writer and her literary canon consists of nine novels, two autobiographies and some non- fictional works. In fact, NayantaraSahgal has introduced a considerable number of autobiographical elements in her novels. For a question, she asserts that ‘all art is autobiographical’ (Women’s Space The Mosaic World Of Margaret Drabble AndNayantaraSahgal, 27).Her work ranges from factual and emotional autobiography to fictionalized autobiography.

Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies is a short story about a doctor’s interpreter who moonlights as a tourist guide in the backdrop of India’s hot July tourist season. At the heart of the story is an absorbing commentary of the disappointments and desperations reigning in contemporary marriages. Her portrayal of the protagonist, Mr. Kapasi, expresses a soul in resigned stupor awakened by a dream of a passionate friendship with a married woman, Mrs. Das, whose long-lost passionate love equaled his. Lahiri succeeded in depicting a realistic development of that tempting spark into an unexpected ending through her compelling use of character, plot, symbolism,