Jhumpa Lahiri, one of the great diasporic writers, tries to explore the inner nuances of her characters. She is not an expatriate Indian like Bharati Mukharjee, who is separated from India long ago and who belongs to the second generation. Her diasporic penetration in to the psyche of her protagonists lay bare the melancholic and uprooted psychology of her characters. Her novel shows the elements of displacement, dislocation, homesickness alienation and search for identity. In her debut novel, The Namesake, Lahiri tries to capture the experience and culture of thirty years struggle of the Ganguli family for their integration and assimilation into an alien culture. Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake describes the struggles and hardships of a Bengali couple, Ashoke and Ashima, who immigrate to the United States to have a life outside of everything they are accustomed to. The story begins when Ashoke and Ashima leave Calcutta, India and settle in central Square, Cambridge and Massachusetts. The novel portrays realistically the experiences of the family afflicted with a filling of cultural alienation. The term diaspora is both literal and metaphorical both referring to the physical displacements as well as the shaping of different sensibility. The novel is a kaleidoscope of the different shades of individual relationships, the conflicts and confusions of the characters, emotional pains and afflictions as Lahiri portrays the theme of cultural dilemmas and the dislocation of the immigrants. The dislocation and its significance can be seen first from the point of view of the parents, Ashoke and Ashima, and secondly from the point of view of their children Gogol and his sister Sonia who are second-generation Indian-Americans. In the novel, Lahiri assimilates cultures of her native land and of the adopted land, makes a cultural commitment to transcend her individual consciousness, and finally achieves universality.