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Multiculturalism has become the culture of the day particularly that of the diaspora world, though we hesitate to delete the prefix multi and we are reluctant to use the term culture as a common/uniform term for the entire globe as a common global culture irrespective of our meandering approval of the same. If we survey the Indian diaspora writings of the last fifty years we find abundance of instances that reflect upon the impression that the definition of culture has undergone a sea change and the present state of affairs is a uniform discipline that was earlier termed as chatnification or khichrification mistakenly called communal, ethnic, fanatic, fundamental, alien, strange, the other, the subaltern, the oppressed, the suppressed, the downtrodden, the ruling, the class, the caste, the regional, the religious, the sectarian, the divisive all derogatory terms, most often used to deprecate the social fabric. The present study confines its locale of study to the Indian Diaspora women writers to diagnose the culture that develops out of contact, of the indigenous and the alien, and the consequences that most likely brings about confrontation and reluctance of different sorts, a crisis of acceptability, and so on.<br/><br/>Culture has played a significant role in the making of bulk of Indian Writing in English. There is an assortment of writers to provide evidence for their dexterity and aptitude in this sphere. On the other hand, Kamala Markandaya believes in the fictive exploration of the human self in the context of complex cultural values as she nurtures a complex vision of human life. As an Indian Diaspora woman writer she excels because of her ample exposure to the duel culture. We do not have an autobiography and hence we have to bank on biography, diary and collection of letters though a piece of art is to be judged as it is. However every major novelist draws heavily upon her/his own life experiences. Kamala Markandaya and her theme of themes of uprootedness