The twenty four essays in this volume deal with the major Indian-American writers and explore the thematic concerns and issues that they raise, such as crisis of alienation and squalor, search for identity, complexities of immigrant experience, new world religion, exposition of terrorism and human rights, globalization, and marginality.

The writers studied in this book include Anita Desai, V. S. Naipaul, Edward Said, Jhumpa Lahiri, Amitav Ghosh, Meena Alexander, Salman Rushdie, Khaled Hosseini, Vikram Seth, Iqbal Ramoowalia, Kiran Desai and Bharati Mukherjee.