Jumpa Lahiri's The Namesake: An Analysis

" The circumstance of ladies is that she , a free and self-ruling being similar to all animals , by the by finds herself living in our current reality where men propel her to expect the status of the other "" ( Beauvoir , 173 )

Jumpa Lahiri , an exile – Indian , in spite of the fact that era ostracize but her first novel The Namesake is around a Bengali family Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli and their family . The novel depicts practically encounters of this family, which is once in a while tormented with an inclination of social distance, rootlessness and separation experienced by every exile at some stage or other . Eventhough she fit in with the second era still she comprehended the idea of diaspora by decision and subsequently repeated

The idea of space is exceptionally important in the investigation of diasporic groups. Social otherness, generational and social distance from their ethnic group leaves the Indian diasporic ladies caught in a space between the way of life of country and that of the host nation. The need security and passionate backing from their family and the disengagement leads diasporic ladies sincerely and monetarily reliant on their spouses to the issues like discouragement, misfortune and sentimentality. Lahiri's The Namesake, is a multifaceted multi generational story which looks at the social clashes, throbs, goals and situations of the Indian migrants who end up in the middle of the local and host societies. Namesake is the narrative of Ashima Bhaduri, an understudy in degree class who gets to be Ashima Ganguli after her promise to Ashoke Ganguli of Alipre. After marriage they move to Boston. The book opens with Ashima Ganguly who is disturbed, nostalgic, spatially and candidly distanced from her tribal home, attempting to reproduce the taste of her most loved Indian nibble, accordingly attempting to remake her past. She thinks about her past with sentimentality of her home and spends her recreation in perusing Bengali ballads, stories and