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    Jhumpa Lahiri

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    Jhumpa Lahiri‚ born in 1967 to Bengali parents in London‚ moved to Rhodes Island as a child. She feels strong ties to her parents’ homeland as well as the United States and England. She now resides in New York. This colorful background has led her to a unique multicultural perspective. Her goal in writing she states is "a desire to be able to interpret between two cultures". Lahiri remembers her need to write as early as when she was ten years old and she has always used writing as an outlet for

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    www.the-criterion.com The Criterion: An International Journal in English ISSN-0976-8165 The Treatment of Immigrant Experience in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Name Sake D.Ebina Cordelia Assistant Professor in English Holy Cross College‚Tiruchirappalli Tamilnadu. Indian writing in English is one of the voices in which India speaks. It spreads the traditional and cultural heritage of India within India and also introduces it to the whole world. It is Indian in sensibility‚ thought‚ feeling and emotion

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    America. In “Mrs. Sen’s‚” Jhumpa Lahiri introduces us to Mrs. Sen‚ an Indian woman living in a university apartment with her husband. Lahiri uses a handful of symbolism and foreshadowing from the very beginning‚ giving us the impression that Mrs. Sen does not feel at home. She uses many references to India‚ the refusal for the culture from an anxious mother‚ and the acceptance of the culture in the eyes of a young boy‚ making the cultural barrier prominent. The day Eliot’s mother meets Mrs. Sen‚ she

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    About Jhumpa Lahiri

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    About Jhumpa LahiriJhumpa Lahiri is an Indian- American author. She was born on 11 July 1967 in London and is daughter of Indian immigrants from Bengal. She grew up in Kingston‚ Rhode island. She graduated from South Kingstown High school and later achieved multiple degrees in Boston university. In 2001‚ She married Alberto vourvoulias –Bush‚ A journalist who was then a deputy editor of “The Times”. Interpreter of maladies Lahiri’s short stories faced rejection from publishers for years. But

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    The book The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri is a classic novel that does an impeccable job of describing the problems of being wedged between his native culture and American culture along with various religious and ideological differences. The novel comprises of various characters‚ but the book revolves around Gogol/ Nikhil‚ the protagonist of the story. Gogol is an American Indian‚ who lives with his family in Boston. He moves on to several other places as he grows up. Gogol is a perfect example of reinvention

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    Jhumpa Lahiri Culture

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    Those that live in America and those that live in India have different lifestyles and traditions‚ but when you have to balance both‚ it’s difficult to figure out who you truly are. Gogol grows up throughout the book with a Hindu-Indian family while living in America. He confronts the challenge of assimilating while trying to pursue two cultures. As he gets older‚ he then tries to find his identity by changing his name from Gogol to Nikhil and starts different relationships. But Gogol then realized

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    Jhumpa Lahiri Analysis

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    A winner of the Henfield Prize from the Transatlantic Review‚ she has published stories in The New York‚ Agni‚ Story Quarterly and elsewhere. Her stories will appear in Prize Stories: The O Henry Awards and The Best American Short Stories. Jhumpa Lahiri received the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for Fiction for collection of short stories‚ Interpreter of Maladies. JhumpaLahiri was born in London to Bengali parents. She recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship‚ JhumpaLahiri has been acclaimed a dominant

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    In the case of the Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri‚ Ashoke plays an important part of the overall work being a secondary character. Not only does Ashoke’s crash in the train launch the events leading up to the upbringing of the family‚ but Ashoke’s death also unifies the family and allows the family to grow. The accident with the train brought up within the first pages of the novel catalyzes the family that comes shortly after. Coincidently‚ before the train crash when Ashoke was suggested to get up

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    Jhumpa Lahiri Identity

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    Jhumpa Lahiri conveys the complexity of identity by using setting‚ tone and style. Lahiri’s novel Namesake‚ in this novel the author introduces the protagonist Gogol. Gogol thru the novel can be described as confused because Gogol is Indian‚ but since he was raised in America he follows the American culture and not the indian culture anymore. Therefore‚ Lahiri conveys the complexity of identity by using setting in this case the setting is America also‚ Lahiri is using tone to convey the complexity

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    imaginative yet distinctly real‚ Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake emotionally captivates the reader as it explores the cultural‚ generational‚ and personal conflicts faced by Gogol Ganguli‚ the son of Indian-American immigrants. As a young man‚ his father‚ Ashoke‚ nearly died in a train accident‚ breaking multiple bones in his lower body and temporarily developing paralysis. Before it occurred‚ he was reading an anthology of stories by the Russian author Nikolai Gogol‚ and later‚ when rescue teams arrived‚ Ashoke

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