Tirohia te wāhanga i raro nei, kātahi ka whakautu i te pātai i muri mai i te reo kotahi me te wāhanga:  Passage: I whanau a Lahiri i Ranana, te tamahine a nga manene Inia Bengali mai i te kawanatanga o West Bengal. I neke tona whanau ki te United States i te rua o ona tau; Ka whakaaro a Lahiri ki a ia ano he Amerikana, ka mea, "Kahore au i whanau i konei, engari i pai pea ahau". I tipu ake a Lahiri i Kingston, Rhode Island, kei reira tana papa Amar Lahiri e mahi ana hei kaitiaki pukapuka i te Whare Wananga o Rhode Island; ko ia te turanga mo te kaiwhakaari i roto i te "The Third and Final Continent", te korero e whakaoti ana i te Kaiwhakamaori o Maladies. I hiahia te whaea o Lahiri kia tipu ake ana tamariki me te mohio ki o raatau taonga tuku iho Bengali, ana ko tana whanau e toro ana ki nga whanaunga i Calcutta (i Kolkata inaianei).I tana tiimata i te whare wananga i Kingston, Rhode Island, i whakatau te kaiako o Lahiri ki te karanga ia ia tana ingoa ingoa, Jhumpa, na te mea he ngawari ake te whakahua i tona "ingoa ingoa". I mahara a Lahiri, "I tino whakama tonu ahau ki taku ingoa.... E whakaaro ana koe kei te whara koe i te mamae o tētahi mā te noho tonu i a koe". Ko te rereketanga o Lahiri mo tona tuakiri ko te whakaaweawe mo te rereketanga o Gogol, te kaiwhakaari o tana pukapuka The Namesake, mo tona ingoa rereke. I roto i tētahi pou matua i Newsweek, e kī ana a Lahiri kua "riro ia i te pēhanga nui kia rua nga mea, kia pono ki te ao tawhito, kia pai hoki ki te ao hou". Ko te nuinga o ana wheako e tipu ana hei tamaiti i tohuhia e enei taha e rua e kukume ana i tetahi ki tetahi. I a ia e pakeke ana, ka kitea e ia ka taea e ia te noho hei wāhanga o ēnei āhuatanga e rua, me te kore whakama me te uaua i a ia i a ia e tamariki ana. I puta a Lahiri mai i te Kura Tuarua o South Kingstown, ka whiwhi i tana B.A. i roto i te reo Ingarihi mai i te Barnard College o te Whare Wananga o Columbia i te tau 1989. I whiwhi a Lahiri i nga tohu maha mai i te Whare Wananga o Boston: he M.A. i te reo Ingarihi, he M.F.A. i roto i te Tuhituhi Waihanga, he M.A. i roto i te Tuhituhi Whakataurite, me te Ph.D. i roto i nga Akoranga Renaissance. Ko tana tuhinga, i oti i te 1997, ko Accursed Palace: The Italian palazzo on the Jacobean stage (1603<unk>1625). Ko ana kaitohutohu matua ko William Carroll (Ingarihi) me...  Pātai: Āhea ia i puta ai i te wānanga?
Ko te tau 1989