The diasporic writing in South Asia has reached a new level with second generation writers like Mounica Ali, Chitra Banerjee, Elissa Binti Abdul Majjid, Kamilla Shamsie, and Yasmine Goonaratne. These novelists have roduced multi-layered works that combine the romantic realism of Dickens and Balzac and the social concerns and gender equity of Anne Bronte and George Sand. The body of work they have produced presents an alternative vision to that of existential writers like Chekov and Kafka. Key Words: diaspora, multi-layered, gender equity, existentialism, Romantic realism, alternate vision etc.