The Indian diaspora is the second largest diaspora in the world after the Chinese. There are atleast 26 million Indians living in diaspora today. And, what marks them as diasporic community is what we think of as home consciousness, which is the awareness that they have a home in the land they have left behind and they have a home in the new land that they have adopted. They may be first; second or third generation diasporics but most of them still retain their home consciousness. This home consciousness is what leads to either a hybrid or a hyphenated identity amongst diasporic Indians. It leads them to search for their roots and this is what they write about; this is what diasporic literature written by Indians is all about. The paper focuses on what is diaspora (its origin) and how the concept of home, exile, memory, identity and globalisation gets represented in the works of a handful of Indian diasporic writers.