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Namesake :-By Jhumpa Lahiri


  • Jhumpa Lahiri written Namesake and published in 2003 is a novel which is an Asian American literature. the story goes round in two culturals indian Bangali family and Western cultural. the main theme can be taken as problems which an indian first generation couple face in a western country and the second generation which is brought up in that environment, how they accept that cultural Natively.



  • Ashok and ashima is a newly married couple and just moved to Massachusetts.Ashima Ganguli is a young bride about to deliver her first child in a hospital in Massachusetts. It is 1968, and her husband, Ashoke, is an engineering student at the MIT. The rule of the hospital is that they have to give a legal name to the baby. so ashok who is a great fan of Russian author Nikolai Gogol, gives the baby name Gogol.


  • Time passes and they started living their routine life. after some time they had a baby girl in their family. in childhood Gogol is now knowing about how is he names Gogol and why. but when time passes the other children's started making fum of his name.so he changed his name Nikhil.This change in name and Gogol's going to Yale, rather than following his father's footsteps to MIT, sets up the barriers between Gogol and his family. The distance, both geographically and emotionally, between Gogol and his parents continues to increase. He wants to be American, not Bengali. He goes home less frequently, dates American girls, and becomes angry when anyone calls him Gogol. During his college years, he smokes cigarettes and marijuana, goes to many parties.



  • one day when Nikhil is coming home in a summer vacation a train accident happened and his father came to know about it and became so much worried for him when he reached and they went to home. they pull into the Ganguli's driveway, Ashoke turns off the car and finally explains the true significance of Gogol's name. Gogol is deeply troubled by this news, asking his father why he didn't tell him this earlier. He starts to regret changing his name and his identity.


  • After this when he returned to New York where he was doing his jod he met a welthy girl named Maxine and begane a relationship with her.He moved in to her big house and also accepted by her family also. They both met to their respective parents. but Ashima is not comfortable for nikhil being with Maxine. in the short time after this Ashok died of a d heart attack and in that nikhil eventually broke up with maxine.time passed and his mother suggested him to meet Moushalumi. they both attracted to each other and married.
  • However, by the end of their first year of marriage, Moushumi becomes restless. She feels tied down by marriage and begins to regret it.Eventually, Moushumi has an affair with Dimitri, an old acquaintance, the revelation of which leads to the end of their marriage. With Sonia preparing to marry her fiancé, an American named Ben, Gogol is once again alone.

  • At the end Gogol comes to accept his name and picks up a collection of the Russian author's stories that his father had given him as a birthday present many years ago.
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