Once in a Lifetime, by Jhumpa Lahiri

"Like the descendants of many immigrants, I feel a lot of pressure on two things - they are loyal to the old world, they can use new things fluently and are approved on both sides of the hyphen" (Rahiri) Jhumpa Lahiri, who received the Pulitzer Prize, called himself Indian-American, and she thought that he was neither an Indian nor an American (Rahri). Rashiri struggled to live through two kinds of life by maintaining two completely different cultures. Most of Lasiri's work is recognized in the United States, not in India where she fell down (Mullan).

The name of Jhumpa Lahiri in The Namesake shows assimilation as a second generation of Gogol's American immigrants, facing assimilation that Gogol will become an American. In the whole novel, Gogol is suffering from his name. From kindergarten to university, Gogol asked why he was called Nikhil when he was a child, and why he was called Gogol while at university. Gogol has a Russian name, often asking his name and encountering problems with people around.

Jhumpa Lahiri, a prominent author of The Namesake, is born 50/50 and provides important insights about second generation immigrants with dual identity in the United States. With The Namesake's dual identity, people choose from culture, lifestyle, and decision-making. The main character, Gogol Ganguli, is faced with double identity issues through books. In addition, he faces the idea of ​​becoming a real American or Bangladeshi. Gogol 's problematic double identity journey began on the day he was born until he found a true balance between the two identities.

Author, teacher, translator Jhumpa Lahiri joined Taylor, talking about Rhode Island's identity, writing problem solving, reading various languages, book cover bad, Elena Ferrante, Bangladesh culture, magic of Calcutta, Italian writer, Classical music in India, influence on buildings, etc. TYLER COWEN: Thank you for coming. You wrote a lot of articles about not having a motherland, but it is clearly not yours, it is even your own culture. If you think "How do you make a work?", Let's read all of your work and its surrounding works, or read it again. You were born in England, but when I was 3 years old I came here and grew up in Rhode Island. What are you doing?