Jhumpa Lahiri and Kiran Desai, The New Women Diasporic Writers

Kiran Desai and Jhumpa Lahiri, the new women writers, who have enriched the
genre of Indian English  ction but their imagination goes beyond the boundaries of
their gender. They address themselves to an Indian culture in which there is a social
pain and cultural displacement within the country as well as outside the country
because of globalization and immigration. They voice the agony of the Indian
immigrants settled in alien land with full of feelings on many fronts. The reasons
for choosing these two critically acclaimed and award winning writers are many as
these two writers contemporary and have so many similarities and dissimilarities.
They have so many commonalities and also inherent differences which is both
overt and covert. The treatment of women characters in the immigrant stories also
demand a close look at the  ctional works of Lahiri and Desai.