In this interview, Bharati Mukherjee, the American author of Indo-Bengali origins, gives an overview of the ideas that triggered the writing of her latest novel, Miss New India (2011). She discusses the way that her novel sheds light on the changes brought by the process of globalization in India. The discussion focuses on the influence of Western ideals on the young Indian generation and the rise of a transnational worldview. The clash between tradition and modernity is the central issue in Mukherjee’s answers. She explains how the transformation of social and cultural structures initiated by the process of globalization in India caught her attention. The notion of change is set as the key term to understand both Miss New India and contemporary India. Along with this notion, she expands on some of the themes found in her earlier works, such as the process of “unhousement” and “rehousement,” the reinvention of identities, and the awakening of female migrant characters to self-empowerment. Mukherjee also emphasizes the changes occurring in the American literary canon due to the mass migration of writers in a globalized and transnational era through the introduction of a new literary category, “The Literature of New Arrival,” which adds a multi-ethnic aesthetic aspect to contemporary and transnational American literature.