Analysis Of Lahiri's The Namesake

Lahiri writing thus appears to be human relationship in all different types are portrayed. As a Saloni Prasad says, Lahiri stories are all about the inner psyche of the characters,

“The relationship between parents and child, siblings, lover, husband and wife and even simply between the residents of the same building” (RRTD P.132) changed the book

Lahiri is an Indian by origin, British by education and American by citizenship. In her cross-cultural experience she unable to forget her cultural past and she negotiate it with American present. Her Indian character are belongs to Bengali origin. They lead a struggle life. They learn to sustain their life without forgetting their cultural past. In habit and practice, they enculturation their ancestral culture in appropriation and orientation. They organize ceremonies, family occasion like birth and death days, marriage and pujas in Hindu tradition. In multi cultural environment they have an emotional bondage with the native culture.

During their terminal visits to India, they get the privilege to have direct contact with their blood relationship. Their native cultural practice in the American social life, they establish an emotional bondage with their root. In their mind, Calcutta remind city of joy, even some years after they were stayed in abroad.Lahiri 's ambivalence over identity was the inspiration for the ambivalence of Gogol, the protagonist of her novel The Namesake (2003), over his unusual name.

Lahiri graduated from