Uma Parameswaran is a novelist dealing with the Indian immigrants in the Canadian society and their bittersweet memories of the homeland. She insists that diasporic writers in Canada must write about immigrant life in the Canada setting and not dwell on the loss and memory of the homeland. Mangoes on the Maple Tree is concurrently delineates the complicated relationship between the characters, especially of the new Indo-Canadian generation raised in Canada. The novel is about a family that has migrated to Canada, and negotiating with different cultural values. It pictures multiculturalism, rootlessness, alienation, racism and the nostalgic feeling of the characters when trying to assimilate into the new land. There is always a sense of belongingness as well as alienation towards the host country. It focuses on the two families Bhaves and Moghes. The novel is about three generations. Both families are Indians who decided to migrate for the better future of their children. They think migrating to Canada will help their children choose better lifestyles. Since they are completely culturally rooted in India, The Bhaves family and the Moghes family represent the three phases of diasporic assimilation. Each of the characters is dealing with the disruption caused by immigration. Sharad, the father, trained as a nuclear Scientist, but makes his living in Winniperg as a real estate broker. His wife Savitri, is exhausted with the demands of her job as a teacher and demands of her family. Jyoti is the protagonist; she is a well-intentioned young woman who spends far too much time worrying about inevitable things, such as her brother leaving home, leaving home herself and other unstoppable family-fiction phenomena. While these internal conflicts run high in the minds of the family members, the external conflicts of workplace inequalities, racism, and other political oppositions towards immigrants shadow their existence.                                                                                                                       

KEYWORDS: Alienation, Racism, Rootlessness and Nostalgic feeling