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@article{193870,
        author = {Dr. Anshu Kumari},
        title = {The Diaspora sufferings in the works of Jhumpa Lahiri},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2026},
        volume = {12},
        number = {10},
        pages = {2219-2223},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=193870},
        abstract = {Diaspora is a silent pain of carrying one homeland in the heart and learning to live in another. Jhumpa Lahiri is not just a writer, she is a contemporary writer mainly known for her emotive depiction of immigrant life and the traditional identity. She is born in a Bengali family but based in London, United States. Much of her works explores the sufferings, experiences and adjustments of the Indian immigrants and their life. When I read the works of Jhumpa Lahiri, I did not feel like I was reading about “immigration” as a political issue. I felt like I was reading about loneliness. About silence. About the quiet pain of living between two worlds. Lahiri does not present diaspora as something dramatic or heroic. Instead, she shows it as something very ordinary and very personal. Her characters go to work, cook food, raise children, fall in love, grow old, and yet, beneath these simple routines, there is a deep sense of displacement. In Interpreter of Maladies, The Namesake, and The Lowland, Lahiri explores the emotional and psychological sufferings of people who have left their homeland and settled in another country. Most of her characters are Bengali immigrants in America or their children. Through them, she shows that migration is not just a physical journey; it is an emotional one. It changes how people see themselves, their relationships, their culture, and even their own names.},
        keywords = {Diaspora, Pain, Suffering, Silent, Homeland, Immigrant},
        month = {March},
        }