An Expansion from ‘Self’ to ‘Other’: Jhumpa Lahiri’s Short Story “When Mr Pirzada Came to Dine”

Abstract

The stories of Jhumpa Lahiri’s reveal the life of Indian Diaspora that keeps on navigating between its traditions and the new world that they face. The stories are
set either in Bengal or Boston and the readers come across the multicultural aspect and the mingled notions of Identity. Globalization has contracted the world and the people who migrate outside their country for various purposes of their own and settle in different corners of the world, have generated a new question regarding identity. In earlier years when men were restricted to their regional boundaries, lived a life according to the set pattern of social customs and traditions; that were relatively stable and attributed his personal identity to society