When you arrive in a new country, you experience a sense of wonder and adventure at the sight and feel of such a different landscape of what we are accustomed to; there is also a feeling of isolation and fear; and intense nostalgia is a buffer into which many retreat. (Uma Parameshwaran) “Diaspora”, derived from the Greek word diaspeirein, etymologically means “to disperse” or “to disperse”. The term applies to the dispersal of a group of people from their place of birth to another country. Although Indians have migrated to different parts of the world since ancient times for purposes of trade and religious propagation, large-scale migration and settlement began with colonial rule in India, when emigration of labor of work was imposed by the colonizers. Since then, Indians have been migrating and settling in foreign countries for various personal and political reasons. Thus, today, the term diaspora refers to “contemporary situations that involve the experiences of migration, expatriate workers, refugees, exiles, immigrants and ethnic communities” (Pandey 20). The experiences of these people from the Indian diaspora are an amalgamation of both constructive and astringent experiences. Their experiences range from trauma to congratulations, from nostalgia to amnesia. They assimilated into the host society and isolated themselves. The impact they made as well as the influence they received in a multicultural society either gave them a good reputation and brought pride to their nation or left them feeling marginalized and gave them a fractured psyche (Pandey 32). This conflict of c. ..... middle of paper ...... uh life to come. The illnesses of Jhumpa Lahiri's characters affirm this need to be rooted and to be the root, the absence of which disrupts the individual and annihilates the warmth of a stable family.Works CitedBraziel, JanaEvans. Diaspora: an introduction. United States: Blackwell Publishing, 2008. Print.Lahiri,Jhumpa. Interpreter of Diseases. New Delhi: Harper Collins Publishers, 2008. Print. Lal, Malashri and Paul Kumar Sukrita. Interpretation of houses in South Asian literature. New Delhi: Dorling Kindersley, 2007. Print.Pandey, Abha. Indian Diasporic Literature. New Delhi: Creative Books, 2008.Print.Parameswaran, Uma. “Writing the Diaspora: Essays on Culture and Identity” Indian Diaspora Writers .Jasbir Jain .Ed. New Delhi: Rawat Publication, 2003. Print.Zhang, Benzi. Poetry of the Asian Diaspora in North America. New York: Routledge, 2008.Print.