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This paper views the diasporic occurrences, namely, rootlessness, nostalgia, memory and alienation in The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh. It is commonly believed that detachment from the human bondage, sentiments, and love is inevitable. The thread that ties the past and the present is memory whereas nostalgia rebuilds the pleasant memories of the former days. It is possible to say that nostalgia is the imagination of the pleasant days of old, celebration of life, an enjoyable and always inspiring form. Thus, nostalgia and memory are also linked together to find the root or belong to it. Ghosh establishes the characters, literally include the Royal family and commoners and what ties them all together is, the characters are the victims of diaspora who stand basically detached, yet strongly attached to the nostalgic past. Ghosh describes the history of three generations of two families in Burma, India, and Malaya and makes the people completely unconscious of their roots and makes them feel alienated in their own country. Characters experience an absence of existence and belonging which always craves identity and space are dealt in this study.