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Diasporic literature deals with the themes such as alienation, exile, loneliness, cultural conflicts and attempts to absorb into the foreign culture. A study of the diasporic writings exposes that the common characteristics in the writings of the old diaspora and the new diaspora include nostalgia, homesickness, and the pains owing to being far from the homeland. There are a large number of writers in Indian English literature who talk about various diasporic experiences in their writings. The field of Indian Chick Literature also includes the diasporic experiences of Indian heroines. Indian Chick Literature illustrates the struggle of the female protagonists for their career as well as to search Mr. Right. But it depicts all these issues with a lighthearted and often comical tone. This paper tries to analyze various diasporic experiences by discussing the novels Salaam Paris and The Village Bride of Beverly Hills by Kavita Daswani who is one of the contemporary diasporic writers. Daswani, a California-based writer, discovers interesting shades of diaspora in Indian Chick Lit. Her novels embody the changes taking place in the Diaspora Indian communities, particularly concerning the institutions like marriage, role of wife in the families, and growing opportunities for women.