The interlacing of memory and identity dynamics in diaspora are explored in this paper by close reading four major novels of the most prominent writer Anita Rau Badami, namely The Heroes Walk, The Hero's Walk, Tell It to the Trees, and Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? through the prism of theoretical approaches to post colonialism and Diaspora. Based on critical writing on South Asian diasporic literature and memory studies, it claims that the fiction of Badami is the expression of a diasporic consciousness, which negotiates the forms of nostalgia, cultural dislocation and generational trauma as fruitful places of identity making. Using a qualitative textual analysis, this paper will map thematic lines that run through the novels and especially the malleable, performative quality of memory, the insecure, transitional, and hybrid identities that can form as characters cross physical and psychic boundaries.
Keywords: Anita Rau Badami; Diaspora; Memory; Identity; Postcolonial Theory; Indo-Canadian Literature
How to cite this article: Awana S, Kumar S, Memory, Identity And The Diasporic Experience: A Study Of Anita Rau Badami's Select Fiction. Int J Drug Deliv Technol. 2026;16(2s): 96-100; DOI: 10.25258/ijddt.16.96-100