Reflection of Diasporic Sensibility in Amit Chaudhuri’s Afternoon Raag

Abstract

Diaspora is a disarticulation of a community or an individual from one geographical region to another geographical  region. Indian English literature is repleted with numerous diasporic issues such as rootlessness , identity crisis, homesickness, conflict between tradition and modernity etc. Amit Chaudhuri is remarkable for his distinctiveness of language which speaks to the readers  and  pave a ground for them to move forward. His works are coated in Indian values and Bengali Sensibility. Amit Chaudhuri’s Afternoon Raag (1993) Explores an Oxford student’s memories of his family and his singing teacher in a foreign land, to which he is unable to relate to.