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Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies is a short story collection that focuses on cultural alienation to provide a natural chance to compare the existence of opposing cultural ideals. Lahiri depicts the lives of Indians and Indian Americans stuck between their ancestral culture and the society in which they now find themselves in all of her writings. She is a well-known fiction writer on the world stage. The idea of international identity and the anguish of cultural displacement runs across all of the stories. In Interpreter of Maladies Jhumpa Lahiri explores cultural alienation by portraying the struggles of Indian immigrants and their American-born children who are caught between the traditions of their heritage and the dominant culture of their host countries, leading to a sense of displacement, rootlessness, and identity crises as they attempt to navigate two different cultural worlds. The work highlights the emotional burden of this dual existence, the longing for lost traditions, and the disconnection that often exists between first and second-generation immigrants, as seen in the contrasting experiences of the Dases and the loneliness they feel despite living in modern America.