Subrata Kumar Das Ph.D. research scholar Centre for the Study of Indian Diaspora, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad. Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel The Namesake (2003) is a culture-oriented, more precisely, a Bengali diasporic culture-oriented novel. As a diasporic novel it represents the diasporic themes like displaced, dislocated and deterritorised feelings of the first generation expatriates like Ashima…