About the Book: Displacements and Alienation of Indian Diaspora
This book titled Displacements and Alienation of Indian Diasporain the selected
works of Chitra Divakaruni, Bharati Mukherji andJhumpa Lahiri has not only
struck an emotional cord, but hasactually pulled at the heart strings of any
writer who is anexpatriate or claims to be one. The poignancy and tenderness
withwhich she discusses the acculturation of writers and the subsequentvoid in
emotional and physical relationships of these chosen few,is soul searching and
brings on great moments of reckoning of areality that has come to stay. Whether
it is by choice orotherwise, the Diaspora expatriate has committed atrophy
onhimself, and the