This study places Indian writer Gita Mehta's writings fiction and non-fiction in
the framework of diasporic studies and ascertains how the author responds to the
Indian realities vis- -vis her Western experience. To Gita Mehta, India is
"home" home stands for a safe place, where there is no need to justify oneself
to others. But as a member of the diaspora, perhaps her position should be
redefined. That she should feel the need to explicate and explain herself and
her culture to the West is in itself an acknowledgement of cultural differences
felt by the diasporic consciousness. The book focuses on the fact that, though
Mehta looks