‘The Namesake’ was published in January 2004. The author Jhumpa Lahiri is a dusky Bengali young woman with a little baby boy. ‘The Interpreter of Maladies’ has already brought fame and name into Jhumpa Lahiri’s lap. This collection of fine short stories won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize of 2000. ‘The Namesake’ is held for its subject, style and relevance. It covers an increasing collision between the cultures of India and the United States. The immigrating experience make its fertile literary ground that weaves a storyline that is both familiar and faraway. Gogol stuggles all through school and even later for a sense of self. He is not born Indian and definitely not yet American. His persona is powerful in dealing with complex and very universal issues of enquiry into identity and being. The plot explores the world of exclusion with annotations from the description – ‘roasting turkeys, wrapping woolen scarves around snow man, colouring boiled eggs at Easter and hiding them.’ Sounds strange specially the Snow Man in a Scarf. One can even imagine the eyes ogling at you. Easter celebrates merrier with boiled eggs. A Colourful Hide and seek. Such instances certainly provide the exact relevancy of the subject and help in adept perceptions. This also projects a picture of combination of the particulars world where boundaries simultaneously blur and yet don’t go away. That’s what Jhumpa tries her hand for. Before one can actually submerge into ‘The Namesake’, Amy Tan remarks, ‘Jhumpa is the kind of writer who makes you want to grab the next person and say ‘Read this!’. True about Jhumpa, she would really take to your neighbours’ doors. The characters are not to be taken for granted but they are neither loud nor brash but sealed down to a very real human size. Life is not a saga and so does this human size vary in its intensity.