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Diasporic Literature is written by authors who live outside their homeland; and is characterized by alienation, nostalgia, loneliness, search for identity and constant displacement of the self. It deals with emigrant sensibility and focuses on the lives of immigrants and their internal and external conflicts in an alien land. Dislocation, fragmentation, racial discrimination, marginalisation, identity and cultural clash, and many other issues caused by migrancy and diaspora are widely reflected in contemporary Indian writings in English. By portraying issues like cultural predicament, quest for identity, multiculturalism and universal aspects of human existence, Diasporic Literature occupies an important status in the literary field. The diasporic writings also known as 'expatriate writings' or 'immigrant writings' give voice to the traumatic experiences of the writers owing to clash of culture and racial discrimination they are subjected to. Writers of diasporic Indian English literature include Amitav Ghosh, Salman Rushdie, Kamala Markandeya, Bharati Mukherjee, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Anita Desai, Kiran Desai, Vikram Seth, Meena Alexander etc. Indian diaspora writers have taken a centre stage globally for their prominent works in the past few years. Diaspora writers have established a trend since the country's independence and readers from all around the world are drawn to Diaspora literature, regardless of language, style, literary form or technique. Diaspora is an emerging term in literature; needless to say it has gained tremendous popularity across the globe. The present study is an attempt to focus on a few Diaspora writers and their significant work.