“The greatest journeys are the ones that bring you home” Jumpa Lahiri The namesake. The clash of cultures takes place when people belonging to one nation move to another in search of greener pastures. This cultural blending, intermingling, leading to identity crisis has given birth to several best sellers. In a way to connect and come closer to that place, the closeness to the culture, the native language and the rules evoke a psychological oppression resulting to dilemma of cultural clash and identity. All around the world people struggle with a sense of self-individualization, which is the internal battle each person has to face in order to discover one’s true identity. The quest to find oneself is a difficult and lengthy endeauvor that can take a lifetime to accomplish. In the Novel The namesake by Lahiri, identity is illustrated by intensely examining the importance of one’s background, name and culture. The main characters in the story try to uncover the reasoning behind their lineage. Jhumpa Lahiri, a daughter of an immigrant is one of the postcolonial writers who faced clashes between two cultures. In The namesake, Lahiri presents the character of Ashoke and Ashima where they feel nostalgia as they migrate to a new land and through the feeling of diaspora, they recollect the memories back at home especially in the character of Ashima. It also deals with the cultural identity crisis which is faced by both the generations of the immigrants. In the case of the first generation, the immigrants face dilemma, consciousness of being an outsider and cultural identity crisis due to the language, dressing sense and food habits. But the second generation immigrants mainly face the crisis in relation to the personality, identity and adjustment in an alien land. The present paper deals with the issue of the migration to present the pain and the problems that are faced by the immigrants and in the end come back to their roots. Indeed, they complete their journey from pain to gain.