A writer who was born in one
country and had to leave her motherland for certain reasons and became a citizen of another one and writes about the
people, culture etc. of her original
country with the help of her imagination.
So, the manner of trying to imagine and describe about the motherland and its
people deserves esteem. I think that we should coin a new term, i.e. “distant-author” and add it to Lahiri’s name since she, being a part of another
country, has taken the help of ‘imagination’ and depicted her India the way she has wanted to; the writer must have every possible right to paint the
world the way he/she thinks appropriate.