Jhumpa Lahiri, one of the second generation immigrants in America is a recent new wave literary artist. Her extensive travel in India and the keen observation of the post-colonial society has enabled her to realize the diasporic challenges. As a south Asian diasporic female writer, she writes about displacement, cross-cultural dilemma and the crisis of identity in the alien land of America though she has made it her homeland. Her novel, The Namesake projects Ashima and Gogol as cultural survivors in America's multi-cultural environment. "Caught between two worlds - one unacceptable, the other unaccepting," they ultimately become outsiders to themselves. This paper focuses on the experiences of the first and second generation immigrants in the settled land concerning their belief, customs and accent. Lahiri's handling of these complexities in a lucid manner undoubtedly establishes her as a matured fiction writer.