The Indian Diaspora and Reading Desai, Mukherjee, Gupta, and Lahiri (original) (raw)

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  17. Author's profile: Amit Shankar Saha teaches literature at the Institute of Advanced Studies (Kolkata). Saha's recent publications include "The Spiritual Sense of Alienation in Diasporic Life: Reading Anita Desai, Bharati Mukherjee, Sunetra Gupta and Jhumpa Lahiri," The Criterion: An International Journal in English (2010), "Defining Selves through Nomenclature: Reading Select Diasporic Fiction of Bharati Mukherjee and Jhumpa Lahiri," Research and Criticism (2010), and "Two Forms: Exploration of Diaspora in Jhumpa Lahiri," Pegasus: An English Critical Journal (2010). E-mail: saha.amitshankar@gmail.com