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Abstract
Diaspora and hybridity have certain commonalities in their relationship to notions of migration, disjuncture and trauma. Bharati Mukherjee with her peculiar sensibility for the cross-cultural crisis in the era of globalization endeavored to dive deep into such ‘slippage’ and ‘splitting’ and the distorted psyche of those immigrants who had been surviving in the conflict of traditional Indian values, inherent in their personality. The notion of belonging and the imposition of a single idea of belonging in the trans-cultural environment are potentially brought under question by Diaspora, and the concepts of multi-status and dislocation come into focus. Each of these notions attempts to unsettle the problems associated with having multiple belongings or no sense of belonging at all.