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In The Tiger’s Daughter Mukherjee creates a stunning, intricate world about the commotion and alteration that arises in the face of an intermingling and combination of cultures, the diasporic topography which she has made in this novel clears many issues of multiple dislocations in the clash between location and culture. Bharati Mukherjee as an Indian by birth and her embracing of new identities as citizen of both Canada and the United States is a very significant point of negotiations between gender, race and culture in the post-colonial condition. In the essential trans-national and translational diasporic change cultural slitting and ruptures are most common results. Mukherjee, with her fondness of conflictual absorption and integration has paid short shrift to any fixed concept of identity and psychological fixity of oneself. In The Tiger’s Daughter, Tara’s alienation is due to her consciousness of dislocation in a diasporic condition and her inner conflict between her root and uprootedness. Her remembered memory of Calcutta differs far from what she watches now, full of complications, dingy politics, poverty and filth which seems inhabitable and very difficult to negotiate. There is an utter confusion in Tara as she visits her home city from the glitzy and glossy New World.