Lahiri Mahasaya

have become so familiar with the concept of divorce. Whether it be through personal experiences or through the works of literature, the idea of a marriages failing has become more known and sadly more accepting. In “A Temporary Matter”, author Jhumpa Lahiri delineates one woman 's desire to end her marriage while her husbands seems to do everything possible to save it. This idea of one sided love makes it evident to the readers that their marriage will inevitably come to an end. The point of…

notice many aspects from this paired lens. Reading The Namesake through this lens can provide an interesting point of view, and the reader also gains a better understanding of the linked elements throughout the book. This novel, written by Jhumpa Lahiri, is about a boy, Gogol, who is born in America to Indian parents. Throughout the book, his parents, Ashima and Ashoke, slowly begin to intertwine with the…

by the members of a society. Since culture is a matter of identity, people don’t want to let go of their culture wherever they are. In the novel The Namesake, written by Jhumpa Lahiri, Ashoke and Ashima, who are Bengalis and moved to America for a better education and life, try to maintain their culture. In her novel, Lahiri clarifies the different aspects of Bengali culture in depth through the experiences of Ashoke and Ashima in America. Some of the aspects of Ashoke and Ashima’s Bengali…

between their ethnic culture and American culture, first generation children must seek a balance between the two in order to understand their identity, which is evident in Gogol’s experience. Through three phases of self-awareness in Gogol’s life, Lahiri depicts the development of Gogol’s understanding of his identity to represent the journey of self-perception children of immigrants undergo while reared in America. In doing so, she conveys the necessity of first generation…

In this six panel comic, I will share a view of my journey as a refugee resettling in the United States of America. From being a refugee to a naturalized citizen, I experienced refugee, language barrier, blended identity, and bilingualism. All four concepts that I have learned and found similarities from the reading of Stealing Buddha’s Dinner by Bich Min Nguyen, We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo, and Race and Ethnicity in the United States by Richard T. Schaefer. Moreover, I will in depth…

tradition and familial expectation. The story of a man and his family, of his life and hopes, loves and sorrows. Covering around 30 years… the novel manages to represent, without patronizing, life within the confines of a professional expatriate enclave. Lahiri is at her best when mapping these confines, and the conflicts between individual’s pursuits and family loyalties…The namesake is a quietly moving tale that explores the somewhat fashionable themes of racial and cultural identity…in…

Migration and immigration have directly or indirectly affected several generations of contemporary writers in English engendering hybridism and cultural complexity within them and urging them to grapple with multiple cultures and countries and tensions between them. The first generation Indian American Community, attempts to inscribe the Indian cultural ethos in the new immigrant country. The striking feature of the writings of the Diasporic writers like Divakaruni is that she concentrates on…

Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel The Namesake, deals with the struggle of an Indian family trying to integrate themselves in America. Indeed, the main protagonist, Gogol is an American-born Indian who is trying to “find himself ” for he is split between his Bengali heritage and and the American culture in which he lives i. He struggles to find his own identity and culture. The question of identity is dealt through names. For instance, Gogol’s name comes from the Russian author Nikolai V. Gogol. He has…

JhumpaLahiri faithfully depicted identity crisis of the first and second generation expatriates in her first novel The Namesake. This crisis is dealt through immigrant’s families and their internal and socio-cultural relations with the people of the foreign country. It deals with the cultural identity crisis which is faced by both the generation of the immigrants. In the case of the first generation, the immigrants face dilemma, consciousness of being an outsider and cultural identity crisis due…

The Namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri, follows the life of the Ganguli family and their assimilation into America and their struggles with raising their children in a new and vastly different culture. Gogol, the main character, was born in America by two Bengali parents, Ashoke and Ashima. Throughout the novel, Gogol struggles with developing his sense of self as he dealt with a clash of Bengali culture at home and American culture in public. His parents were staunch supporters of maintaining the…