Indian diasporic writing made its landmark entry with the writings of Salman Rushdie, V.S. Naipaul, Bharati Mukherjee, Vikram Chandra, Amitav Ghosh, Vikram Seth, Sunetra Gupta, Rohinton Mistry, and Hari Kunzru who have all made their names while residing abroad. One of the important aspects of these writers is that they write predominantly the experiences of migration. They have given more poignancy to the exploration by dealing not only with a geographical dislocation but also a socio-cultural sensibility to their homeland. Jhumpa Lahiri is one of the most eminent and accomplished writers of Indian Diaspora. She occupies a significant place in world literature. Her works deal with the themes of immigration, displacement, loss of identity, clash of cultures, emotional complexes, human relations and communication barriers. In the present paper, four short stories from the collection Interpreter of Maladies (1999) are considered for analyzing her sensibility towards India and Indianness. The significance of the work as diasporic short story collection lies precisely in the author’s attempt to exploit the underlying tension when one lives between two worlds and two cultures.