Category: Interpreter of Maladies

Jhumpa Lahiri was born in London, Britain in 1967. She is the girl of parents who emigrated from India. Jhumpa Lahiris books deal with issues that show up banal and each day but raise questions about culture, identity, the position and condition of the subject in an Americanized neocolonial world. All the stories within the…

We as humans often like to fantasize about having a more glamorous life than what we actually have. Most of the time, people like to imagine being with someone who thinks is good for them, but its the exact opposite. Thats the mistake Mr.Kapasi ended up making in the story Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa…

Abstract This paper is an attempt about expounding the illness of Mr. Das family in THE INTERPRETER OF MALADIES by Jhumpa Lahiri. The main illness involved in this paper is language and communication, contrasting region and cultural identity and memory and past etc. They left their plantation in some other country and so they are…

For a relationship to be successful it depends on how you communicate. The importance of communication in a relationship is too share your concerns, thoughts, and to support each other through times. It also allows us to get our lifes together and makes better decisions with in each other. Communication is effective based on how…

The customs and or culture in North America is somewhat different from the one practiced in India. The characters among both stories Management of Grief and Interpreter of Maladies are from an Indian background. Both North Americans and Indians have each their own different sets of practices and values amongst them. Many individuals come to…

Question 1 We can see many situations where the local gaze was in contrast with the tourist gaze in stories like Interpreter of Maladies by Lahiri. Right off the first scene we could see the communication barrier form between local, Mr. Kapasi who mistook the Das family as locals instead of diasporic travelers. Mr. Kapasi…

Today transnationalism seems to be everywhere and across numerous disciplines. This expansion of interest is evident in a rapidly increasing number of publications, conferences and projects within the disciplines of sociology, anthropology, geography, political science, law, economics and history, as well as in interdisciplinary fields such as international relations, development studies, business studies, ethnic and…

Jhumpa Lahiris stories assortment, Interpreter of Maladies has some sensible stories that tend to disagree in perspective and approach. Despite these variations, the stories are tied to same concepts and themes. The stories revolve around individuals of Indian background though beneath totally different circumstances and roles. many of these characters are Indian immigrants to the…