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National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellow Jhumpa Lahiri is known publicaly by her nickname because her kinder garten teacher deemed it easier to pronounce than her proper name, Nilanjana Sudeshna. Born to Bengali emigre parents and newly arrived in the united states from London she had to grapple early with question identity and the impact of this is palpable in the Namesake. The Inherritance of Loss is a story of varitations which leads to the cultural identities and cultural conflict present in the human civilization across the globe. Kiran Desai exhibits the social construction of human experience, interaction and social realities to reveal a social meaning out of it as an inter-subjective process. It is an interesting journey from Sikkim to united state , how conflict is connected to the meaning, meaning to knowledge and knowledge routed in culture. Culture is the newest fad sweeping the literature on international relations,security studies an international economics. A throng of recent essays and books point to culture as the basic force impaling nation-states other institutions and individuals to act and organize themselves as they do. Many of these writings argue that culture�s importance is growing. There can be little doubt that cultural attributes play a substantial role in providing human beings with the mental moral an economic equipment for life. Moving on the mundane approach to the question of the human sense of identity, it is soon realised that one lives in the world of others. It is in relation to others to the society and the environment in which one lives-that one�s own identity is formed.