Diasporic Identity in Meera Syal’s Novel “Anita and Me” A. Phaniraja Kumar Research Scholar, Dept. of English, ANUCDE, Guntur, A.P, India Abstract: The present paper focusses on the agonizing struggle of growing up in the crushing clash of cultures. It is about the cultural displacement felt by nine year old British-born girl, Meena Kumar, the central in Meera Syal’s “Anita and Me” (1996). Meena’s dilemma is the dilemma of British–born Asians whose divided identities make it difficult for them to locale and place themselves. They do not know when, where, and how to relate and belong. This is nothing fixed, or pre-given in diasporic identity. The stable core of the self is no more stable today. Keywords: adapting, adopting, blonde, brain drain, brat, debut, exotica, hybridity, loathing, oblique, oeuvre, rendition, revulsion, slights and pluralism. Introduction: Emigrant, Expatriate, exile, refugee are the terms that echo some sense of alienation, isolation, loss, unbelongingness and rootlessness come under the shade of an umbrella term’ diaspora’. Diaspora is a Greek term originally used to mean a scattering or sowing of seeds. Wikipedia defines as any people or ethnic population forced or induced to leave their traditional ethnic homelands, being dispersed throughout other parts of the world and the ensuing developments in