Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee: an innovative diasporic representationDiasporic literature reflects the challenges, aspirations and anxieties of a person who migrates to a new country. The first generation of all immigrants still suffers from a broad sense of nostalgia, and first-generation immigrants tend to stick together to preserve their cultural, religious, and linguistic identity. Preserving their identity is one of their main concerns. (Anand viii) Understanding migration and existence in a diaspora has sparked active engagement with postcolonial literature, criticism, and theory. Writers like Buchi Emecheta, Amitav Ghosh, Bharati Mukherjee became famous in Western literary criticism while theorists like Homi K Bhabha, Paul Gilory and Stuart Hall introduced new critical thinking and developed relationships between literature, history and politics. In modern times, where the world is becoming globalized, people have to move from one place to another for earning a living or for multiple reasons, thereby creating interdependence on each other. Whether these migrations were voluntary or forced, the idea of ​​diaspora in particular has been prolific when it comes to the movements of people across the world, in real life. Diasporic studies views migration in terms of adaptation and creation – adapting to change, upheaval and transformation, and creating new forms of knowledge and different ways of looking at the world. The Indian diaspora in the West has undergone physical displacement, but they have little reason to feel exiled. The external circumstances of displacement become less important while the psychological and spiritual state of the mind gains ground...... middle of article...... ter1998.Anand, Silky Khullar. Women writers of the Indian diaspora. New Delhi: Creative Books, 2010. Dhawan, R.K., ed. Indian Women Novelists, Vol. 1. New Delhi: Prestige, 1991. Dhawan, RK, ed. Indian Women Novelists, Vol. 5. New Delhi: Prestige, 1991. Karen Offen, “Defining Feminism: A Comparative Historical Approach,” Signs, 14.1 (Fall) 1988. Komarovsky, M. Women in the Modern World. Boston: Little Brown, 1953. “An Interview with Bharati Mukherjee,” Span, June 1990, vol. 31, n°6, p. 36Bharati, Mukherjee. Sunday Review, The Times of India, October 1, 1989. Kumar, Nagendra. The Fiction of Bharati Mukherjee: A Cultural Perspective. New Delhi: Atlantic, 2001. Mukherjee, Bharati. Jasmine. New York: Viking, 1989.B. Like “On feminine culture: an attempt to formulate a theory of solidarity and women's action”, Acta Sociologica, 28 . 142-61.