Many Indian English novelists have studied the problems of multicultural societies and tried to sensitize people to the joys and sorrows of the immigrants. My paper examines the texts of a few writers like M.G. Vassanji, Anita Desai, Jhumpa Lahiri, Kiran Desai et al to study the relationship between people belonging to different cultures. It is seen that the interface progresses along the trajectory of initial prejudices, culture shock, economic hardships, nostalgia, creation of imaginary homelands, adjustment with host culture to the extent possible, shaped finally by the politics which decides if the adjustment will be favourable to the host or the guest.