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Diasporic literature is a different branch of literature that is emerged due to the displacement and migration of people to different corners of the world in seeks of opportunities. Migration and partition left the people behind a sense of loss and insecurity which leads to the confusion related to their identity and culture. Identity plays a crucial role in determining one’s existence. Different dilemmas are portrayed in the Diasporic literature outpouring their inner turmoil related to their identity. Writers exhibited the sense of belongingness in their writings since whenever a person migrates to a new country or place. Diasporic literature deals with different themes related to their ongoing problems. Displacement of the second generation writers and their efforts to identify themselves with alien cultures add a new dimension to their fiction. Eminent writers like VS Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Rohinton Mistry, Bharati Mukherjee, Meena Alexander and few others expressed their angst in the society related to existence in their writings. The paper aims to trace the emergence of diasporic literature emphasizing on the contribution of Indian diasporic literature. It deals with the sense of belongingness and identity crises in the writings of diasporic writer Jhumpa Lahiri, an Indo-American writer and how her characters handle the perennial problems related to their displacement, sense of loss, insecurity and isolation as they moved from their homeland to an alien land from her short story collections, Interpreter of Maladies.