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Abstract
Amit Chaudhuri is a stand out amongst the most observed Indian novelist in English. His writings reflect the sensibility and simplicity of Indian values coated in Bengali culture. His novels have won many major awards and he has accepted international critical applause. The select novel Afternoon Raag has Oxford, Bombay and Calcutta as its locale and background. The city of Calcutta and the protagonist's relation to it remains the common feature of this novel.
Sandeep is a young man studying at Oxford. This novel presents the narrator as an expatriate Bengali living in Oxford. His memory oscillates between his days in India and those in Oxford. This paper tries to mirror Chaudhuri’s reflection towards socio-cultural perspective which is practically mapped in the frame of diasporic consciousness.