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The research article tries to explore and study the social and cultural themes in the fiction of Jhumpa Lahiri, one of the most alluring authors of �diaspora�. The subject of �culture� is always a stuff of interest particularly when it has to do with a foreign setting. Lahiri�s characters signify different social walks of life and for all time discover them wedged in two diverse worlds, one that they have left at the back and the previous in which they try to fiddle with and as a result faces a cultural conflict. This cross cultural conflict is for all time at hand currently seen in almost all of her stories. The expatriates�, mainly that of America easily turn out to be habituated or familiarized to the custom and civilization and come across suitable place to settle there but the longing for their homeland for no reason goes from their minds and head. They see the America from the Indian viewpoint and it is the viewpoint which brings the inconsistent judgment though they get an improved ambiance and chance.