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Item Amitav Ghosh'sThe Circle of Reason: A Study in Diaspora(Department of English, 2006) Bista, Dipak BahadurTheCircle of Reasonis a story of three irrepressible people trying to find order in an anarchic world. The story centres on Alu, an orphan enlisted by his foster father as a solider in his crusade against the forces of myth and unreason. When a terrorist bomb blast ravages their village, Alu flees, pursued by a misguided police officer through Calcutta to Goa and on to a trawler that runs illegal aliens to Africa. So, it is an effort to disclose the problems resulting fromdiasporic situation. The people migrated from one country to another, though they are also a part of the society, have to face several problems due to various reasons. The problems they confront in foreign lands compel them to recollect a memory or to makea vision or myth about their original homeland. Finally, they believe that the ancestral home is a place of eventual return when the time is right. So, this research endeavours to depict the struggle of diasporic identity and the people for their stable desire for their homeland.Item Cultural Alienation of Indian Diaspora in Lahiri’s “Unaccustomed Earth”(Faculty Arts in English, 2012-08) Chudal, Bimala DeviThis research, fashioned after Jhumpa Lahiri's “Unaccustomed Earth,” is an endeavor to expose mediocrities, generational gap, and the searching analysis of Indian traditions, marriage and social life of immigrant Bengali-Americans living as an inborded labores in foreign land. This work examines Lahiri's immigrant characters and their experiences as second generation of Bengali immigrants in America in the light of postcolonial critical insights. In other words, this work is an effort to clarify the research question if the life in exile is the unbearable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home. Each and every attempt in this paper resonates with Lahiri's discovery of alienated self in her characters in the title story “Unaccustomed Earth.”