Manju Kapur rose to fame with the publication of her debut novel Difficult Daughters in 1998, which won her the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in the Eurasia region. She is the author of four more novels titled A Married Woman (2002), Home (2006), The Immigrant (2009) and Custody (2011) of which Home was shortlisted for the Hutch Crossword Book Award in 2006. She belongs to Amritsar; she graduated from Delhi University, then moved to do a Masters from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, and returned to India to do M.Phil. from Delhi University and became a professor at Miranda House, although she is currently retired from there. Kapur wrote basically about women; their marriage, life after marriage, their search for identity, their trauma and the dilemma if they fail to achieve the desired results in their life but in The Immigrant, she has moved away from the above-mentioned themes, because, through this novel, we come through the diaspora consciousness of the writer, though she does not fall into the category of diaspora writers like Jhumpa Lahiri, Kiran Desai, VS Naipaul, Vikram Seth, Bharati Mukharjee, Anita Desai, Upmanyu Chatterjee, Salman Rushdie, Githa Hariharan and Presto . The writings of these writers provide an insider's view of the problems and obstacles faced by expatriates in their new adopted land. Before proceeding in this direction, the words Diaspora, migration or immigration and exile require a clear explanation. Etymologically the term Diaspora has its Greek origin, composed of 'dia' and 'speirin', meaning to disperse or disperse. “It was,” as N. Jayaram quotes Martin Baumann in his The Indian Diaspora: Dynamics of Migration, “originally used to refer to the aggregate of J…… at the center of the card…… charts new routes and new ways of thinking that help in development and progress and ultimately depends on the person's attitude on how to deal with obstacles from migration to settlement. Works Cited Kapur, Manju. The immigrant. New Delhi: Random House India, 2008. Print. Mcleod, John. Beginning of postcolonialism. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000. Print.Pandey, Abha. Indian diasporic literature. New Delhi: Creative Books, 2008. Print.Saharan, Asha. “Female Body: Site of Culture – “A Study of Manju Kapur's The Immigrant.” Labyrinth: Volume-3, No.4 October-2012, ISSN 0976-0814. Print.Sharma. SL “Perspectives on Indians Abroad.” The Indian diaspora. Ed. N. Jayaram. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2004. Print.Uniyal, Ranu. Women in Indian writing: from difference to diversity. New Delhi: Prestige, 2009. Print.