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The term ‘Diaspora’ is used to denote any people of ethnic population induced to leave their traditional indigenous homelands, backgrounds, and beliefs being scattered all over the world depicting their ensuing accomplishments in their new homeland. The behaviour of the Diasporas may be different relying on their re-located country. The evoking of reminiscences is one of the paramount means of expression in diasporic writing. The tales of diaspora envelop “the self”. The theme of alienation and the austere struggle for Identity Crisis encountered by the immigrants in foreign lands is eminently articulated by the writers of the Diaspora. As an expatriate, Mistry’s personal experiences, double displacement contribute at length to the creation of enchanted tales about the craving and nostalgia for the left behind in the form of the homeland, which only exists in reminiscences. This paper is an attempt to examine the theme of expatriation in the stories that constitute the pool of Tales from FirozshaBaag and the predicament for identity in the protagonists of these stories. Mistry’s Tales from Firozsha Baag (1987)offer a bird’s-eye view of the descriptive and narrative techniques of the writer in dealing with the eleven short stories of the collection.