Jhumpa Lahiri

Mr. Kapasi who for a living gives tours and is also works as interpreter for a Doctor (Lahiri 450) understands the importance of communicating effectively in the workplace. However, may not so much in his personal life as he begins to fall for Mrs. Das even though they’re both married (Lahiri 452). However, Mr.Kapasi doesn’t seem to feel too guilty because he never felt connected to his wife and he knew Mrs. Das wasn’t happily married either…

Boston Globe in 1993. “It was an enormous transformation in my life.” She added, “I really jumped the grooves”. After a year short she appointed to teach postcolonial and world literature at the University of California, Berkeley in 1989. She was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts grant in 1986 for continuing to write. In her many interview she says about the difficult life of her in Canada. She says, she found herself treated and discriminated against, as a member of the ‘visible…

he Namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri, presents and interesting topic featuring a sort of theme and feeling of a double life. How within less than twenty four hours it is possible for your u to go from one life to another without much difficulty. Who know know the better either? This excerpt of the story follows an Indian family, providing insight on the rather underwhelmed my aftermath of their trip. It makes a point of this by saying, "Within twenty-four hours he and his family are back on…

does not change during the story, only Mr. Kapasi’s perception of her changes. In the beginning Mrs. Das is portrayed as selfish and inattentive to her children. Mr. Kapasi noticed that they “behaved like an older brother and sister, not parents” (Lahiri 590). As the story progresses, it is when she believes Mr. Kapasi could help her with her own problems she begins to talk to him. It was this interaction that began Mr. Kapasi’s infatuation with her and altered his opinion. Throughout the story…

Relationships can be difficult to both initiate and maintain, as demonstrated by the characters of Junot Diaz’s “How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, or Halfie” and Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Interpreter of Maladies.” In each story, the characters find that there are multiple struggles to overcome in order to begin and preserve a well functioning relationship. However, the obstacles that hinder the success of these relationships differ for each character. In Diaz’s “How to Date a Browngirl,…

the location of their roots but on a shared willingness to reach beyond them" (194). 3. DISCUSSION In analyzing Jhumpa Lahiri’s Fictional world, my focus will remain on the issues raised above, particularly, how the notions of hybridity and identity co-exist and reach beyond the conventional boundaries of nationhood. In her short story collection, “Interpreter of Maladies”, Jhumpa Lahiri portrays various characters that either belongs to what we may call as ‘mixed cultures’ placed either in…

or the like. Often times, through such relationships, one learns a thing or two about life and love. While these lessons are often positives, occasionally relationships dissipate with hurt feelings and hard truths. In the novel The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri, the protagonist, Gogol, suffers through the termination of three romantic relationships. With each, Gogol’s life mostly becomes consumed by the relationship, and it is clear that this puts strain on himself and his family. Throughout Gogol’s…

Loss of Communication in Jhumpa Lahiri’s “The Interpreter of Maladies” In the short story of Jhumpa Lahiri entitled, “The Interpreter of Maladies,” the theme of loss of communication is seen through various stages and instances. Communication is used as a tool to further connections between individuals. In the case that it is lost, there could be miscommunication and misunderstanding between those involved. In the story, the theme encompasses various aspects of the lives of both Mr. Kapasi, the…

Through the portrayal of a hysterical character, apart from highlighting the atrocious attitude of Indian society, Lahiri seems to emphasize the role of sex in the healing of physical deformity and mental retardation. Bibi Halter is a protagonist of the story who suffered from a baffling desease. Although a long period of period of suffering, humiliation and indifferent…

Peeping into the uniqueness of Human Culture by analysing the Stepfather-Stepdaughter relationship in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowlands and George Eliot’s Silas Marner Denvor Fernandez, M.Phil., Scholar, PSGCAS, Coimbatore What makes human beings unique from other entities, living and non-living, is their rationality, diversity of behaviour, imagination, spiritual quest and above all, the ability to love as no other creature can. Such love can be seen in the complex relationships we have with other…