Contents: 1. Jhumpa Lahiri: the master storyteller/Suman Bala. 2. Of defining and re-defining the Asian-American diaspora: a case study of Jhumpa Lahiri/Somdatta Mandal. 3. Broken identities: a comparative study of Bharati Mukherjee’s Darkness and Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies/Indira Nityanandam. 4. Beyond the national motifs: an attempt to re-connect peripherality to universality thematics of Tagore’s writings with special reference to Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies/Keya Majumdar. 5. Crossing cultural borders: new voices in Indian American literature/Nila Das. 6. Names as symbols of identity in Jhumpa Lahiri’s stories/Sudhir Dixit. 7. Bicultural ethos and conflicting claims in Interpreter of Maladies/Pashupati Jha and T. Ravichandran. 8. Acts of migration and the despondency of the lonely traveller: reading across Interpreter of Maladies/Alessandro Monti. 9. Nine sketches interpreting human maladies: an assessment of Jhumpa Lahiri’s stories/Rashmi Gaur. 10. Home and abroad: a study of Interpreter of Maladies/Parmanand Jha. 11. Crisis in human values as reflected in Interpreter of Maladies/Jyoti Mishra. 12. Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies: interpreting human values/Madhoo Kamara. 13. Multicultural commitment: a study of Interpreter of Maladies/Bhagabat Nayak. 14. Between the two worlds: a critique of Interpreter of Maladies/G. Dominic Savio. 15. Lahiri’s portrayal of life in exile/Arunoday Mukherjee. 16. Jhumpa Lahiri’s quest for identity through Interpreter of Maladies/Suneeta Patnayak. 17. Interpreter of Maladies: a study in the use of doubling/Madhoo Kamara. 18. The native and acquired selves of the tormented souls in the fictional world of Jhumpa Lahiri/Bhagabat Nayak. 19. "Beyond" ethnicity: a study of Interpreter of Maladies/Brati Biswas. 20. Existential irony through optic motifs in Interpreter of Maladies/V. Sam Sahayam. 21. Human relationships in Interpreter of Maladies/Kishan H. Pawar and Savita A. Patil. 22. Lahiri does not interpret maladies in Interpreter of Maladies/Shyam S. Agarwalla. 23. Ambivalent expatriate sensibility in Interpreter of Maladies/Pushp Lata. 24. The enigma of cultural multiplicity: a study of Interpreter of Maladies/Jaydeep Sarangi. 25. The problems of immigrants in an alien land: Interpreter of Maladies/Satish Barbuddhe. 26. Looking beyond the diaspora: a reading of Interpreter of Maladies/Keya Majumdar. 27. Meaningful whispers: the short stories of Jhumpa Lahiri/O.P. Mathur. 28. In other worlds: reading "When Mr. Pirzada came to dine"/Sushila Singh. 29. Imagining homelands: Bharati Mukherjee and Jhumpa Lahiri/Rudra Prasad Mahto. 30. Interpreter of Maladies: a critical study/A.K. Mukherjee.