Lahiri as a writer of uncommon elegance and poise and a wonderfully distinctive new voice, she chronicles dislocation and social unease in a fresh manner as did her predecessors like Bharati Mukherjee or Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. She being the recepient of the coveted Pultizer award for her collection of short stories Interpreter of Maladies, is a voice of Indo-American origin. Though she lives in the U.S, her works are imbued with ethos of Indian culture and sensibility. She may be considered a writer of Indian diaspora, though her own idea of India is 'of the mind' only.