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Abstract
Indian writing in English is no longer a bogie fixed to the British engine. Indian diasporic literature which has wedged global attention in recent times. The concept diaspora means diffusion or spreading of people from their homeland.This paper highlights the traditional practices in India as rendered by Lahiri in her novel The Namesake.Contemporary Indian novelists in English influence their distress in a clear means for the failure of human’s traditional and ethical values in the middle of persistent urbanization and the far-reaching western influence. The Namesake represents the opposition of American and Bengali- Indian tradition at each stages of life. In the novel, Lahiri brings into light that the first generation immigrants always have quest for the native tradition in their soul even though they are physically present in strange country.