Postcolonial transnational counter-textuality began by affirming the contestation between estrangement and search for identity. The counter-textual mood of anti-colonial or nationalist writing finds its resources in the transcultural restlessness of writers such as Salman Rushdie, Ben Okri, Michael Ondaatje and Bharati Mukherjee. However, Mukherjee’s position is different from that of other writers of Diaspora. In the language of Jasbir Jain, ‘Diasporic writers have worked variously with their material. Ondaatje moved from culture to culture, several others have accepted the Janus-faced hyphenated self, choosing to locate themselves in hyphen, yet others like Bharati Mukherjee have shed their pasts, if not as material, at least as professions about it.