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CHAPTER - V CONCLUSION Kamala Markandaya and Jhumpa Lahiri, the two significant wheels of Indian English fiction, are passionately interested not only in presenting the important aspects and varied colours of human life but also in depicting the socio-cultural conflicts in their fiction. Both the writers are in tremendous love with life and naturally, both intend to celebrate life. It is their subtle observation of society and culture which makes them examine the prevailing sicknesses, sorrows and miseries and bring to the fore the factors which prohibit us to live our life joyously. Life is so full of meaning to them that they find a possibility of divine song in the chaos of life. However in an attempt to discover that divine song, they try to diagnose and treat the illnesses inflicted by human beings, society and environment sympathetically. In the wide spectrum of her novels, Kamala Markandaya has successfully presented almost all the important aspects and the varied colours of human life viz., family life of poor persons in Nectar in a Sieve and A Handful of Rice; husband-wife relationship in A Silence of Desire; exploitation of man by man in Possession, The Coffer Dams and Two Virgins; racial conflicts in Some Inner Fury and Coffer Dams; love for countrys freedom in Some Inner Fury and The Golden Honeycomb and a spirit of love and fraternity between the people of the East and the West in Pleasure City. Jhumpa Lahiri as a diaspora writer, deals with a multicultural society both from inside and outside, seeking to find her native identity as well as the new identity in the adopted country. This brings in a clash of cultures and dislocation and displacement. It is this predicament of people in diaspora that the fictionist attempts to analyse through her oeuvre of fiction writing consisting of Interpreter of Maladies (1999), The Namesake (2003), Unaccustomed Earth (2008) and The Lowland (2013). She also dwells on acculturation and contra-acculturation which t