Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow-Lines is a classic exposition of the Foucauldian notion of heterotopic space. The novel, through its exclusive engagement with the notion of space both in the Indian subcontinent and outside, subtly brings out the former’s immensely heterogeneous and inherently conflictual character. In today’s world, as Foucault would categorically assert, we live in a space that is not unified and *geneous, rather one that is complex, heterogeneous and is filled with many inherently contradictory characters. This is, in his words, a heterotopic space – a space that perhaps most suitably demonstrates our contemporary mode of existence. In the novel, as we can explicitly notice, there are various events and episodes occurring in certain spaces in a scenario where these spaces are filled with multiple transnational and cosmopolitan characters despite they being located in specific locales. Culver's Guest Satisfaction Survey