The focus of the current article is on Lahiri's ideas, particularly the cross-cultural dilemma. In all of her books, Lahiri eloquently developed the issue of cross-cultural conflict. This study examines Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies for its topic of cross-cultural problems. Interpreter of Maladies is a short story collection by Jhumpa Lahiri that focuses on cross-cultural issues to provide a natural chance to compare the existence of opposing cultural ideals. Lahiri depicts the lives of Indians and Indian Americans stuck between their ancestral culture and the society in which they now find themselves in all of her writings. Lahiri is an outsider to Indian society who is still trying to figure it out. For instance, she admits, I'm lucky that I’m between two world..... Lahiri uses her cultural background as an Indian American in her writings to create plots and characters that express the juxtaposition in her own life. Culture denotes creative people's arts, customs, and institutions, as well as meals, languages, clothing, civilization, political history, and conditions. As a result, we can differentiate one group of people from another and one nation from another. Multiculturalism appears to institutionalize another means of expressing a nation's cultural identity in the context of its vicissitudes. Multiculturalism denotes the coexistence of many civilizations. Lahiri is a well-known fiction writer on the world stage. The idea of international identity and the anguish of cultural displacement runs across all of the stories. She sought to express her sentiments via writing rather than taking consolation in it, and she received praise for her efforts.