Discourse of Alienation, Rootlessness, and Loneliness in Sunetra Gupta’s Memories of Rain

This paper explores certain important facets of diasporic life such as alienation, rootlessness, and loneliness in Sunetra Gupta’s Memories of Rain. It further goes on to show how human relationships act as an antidote for such conditions. Sunetra Gupta problematizes the concerns of identity, loneliness, alienation, rootlessness, and so on with issues of history and culture to make them tangible in the context of displacement. Sunetra Gupta living abroad has first-hand knowledge of displaced existence and often her works have manifestations of her own conditions. She has highlighted through a spectrum the changes that have taken place in relation to the diasporic Indians and their acceptance in the West over the years.