Cross-border migrations being common during colonial/post - colonial period and more frequent during the reforms period, there are scores of Indian diasporic writers including Salman Rushdie, V .S. Naipaul, Nirad C. Choudhury , Vikram Seth, Rohinton Mistry , Bharati Mukherjee, Agha Shahid Ali, Amitav Ghosh, M.G. Vassanji, Farrukh Dhondy , Amit Chaudhury , Jhumpa Lahiri, Kiran Desai, to name only a few who have attracted the readers and academia across world by producing the literature depicting t ypical diasporic sensibility among the expatriates. Jhumpa Lahiri was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2000 for her debut collection of short stories entitled Interpreter of Maladies (1999). Her very first novel The Namesake (2003) shot her into l imelight. Her second short story collection Unaccustomed Earth (2008) has again proved her as one of the most excellent and commendable writers of fiction of the world. Jhumpa Lahiri documents the trauma of the protagonists in different context. Lahiri largely writes about the human condition of Indian diaspora in the USA. Her focus is the ‘mindscape of characters ’ and ‘human predicament ’ in its wider perspective