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Diasporic writing occupies a place of great significance between countries and cultures.The writings of diasporic writers abound with the culture of their homeland and at the same time adopt and negotiate with the cultural space of the host land. Nation and culture are renarrated, not in terms of monolithic space but as terrains that change ‘in process’ thus interconnecting the histories and cultures in the spaces of nation and identities bridging the sense of loss and alienation. Displacement and memory in the works of Agha Shahid Ali, Kashmiri born American diasporic writer, tend to strongly link his mother and motherland, and ponders the permutations of exile and expatriate life negotiating with the landscape of loss, its contours altered by the intrusion of the personal. Though he has reshaped his identity with his American life, his poetry reflects his longing to intertwine and reconcile with his past.