In America, this occurs in forms of cultural ethnocentrism and the romanticised self-pity of nostalgia about the distant home. They demand the same from the younger generation, which immediately sets conflicts in the relationship. Indians generally are rooted in the ethnic/caste/communal identities than in the national and resort to the tradition-set rules in the social and family matters at home. Hardly any Indian immigrant mother in America absolves herself of such pity and guilt, the new world of unlimited material possibilities puts her in doubts of her newborn’s cultural existence. She has never known a person entering the world so alone, so deprived.” The baby boy born to them in America they name Gogol. In the new country over and above the cultural shock, the child’s birth unsettles her, “ As she strokes and suckles and studies her son, she can’t help but pity him. Author: Jhumpa Lahiri, winner of the Pulitzer Prize.Īshima weds Ashoke, a doctoral candidate in electrical engineering at MIT in a typical Indian arranged marriage in Calcutta.
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