Kiran Desai and Jhumpa Lahiri, per se, are the new women writers, who have enriched the genre of Indian English fiction 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 and emotions of loneliness and displacement with no choices for alternative freedom 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.

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