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Abstract
One of the renowned Asian-Canadian writers, Anita Rau Badami, who created an identity in the field of Diasporic literature. Through her first striking novel, Anita Rau Badami who moved to Canada in 1991, appeals on those reminiscences for this intense, almost photographic saga about an unsatisfied woman imprisoned within the social and cultural expectancies of her period. Tamarind Mem is basically a story of the relationship between Saroja and Kamini as mother-daughter which represents their different perceptions towards their past. This paper is an attempt to explore about their past, including psychological reason behind acidic tongue of Saroja, and gypsy upbringing of Kamini, and mishmash of their cultural boundaries, which twisted the personal lives and aspirations of the characters emerging their new identities.