Namita Gokhale's fiction, spanning four decades from Paro: Dreams of Passion (1984) to Things to Leave Behind (2016), consistently returns to the condition of living between worlds: between English and vernacular idiom, metropolitan modernity and Himalayan tradition, inherited myth and lived experience, colonial history and postcolonial self-fashioning. This paper argues that Gokhale's oeuvre offers a sustained meditation on postcolonial identity as an experience of cultural hybridity rather than of clean rupture or return. Drawing on Homi Bhabha's theorisation of hybridity and the "third space," alongside feminist postcolonial criticism, the paper traces this hybridity across three registers in Gokhale's work: linguistic hybridity, most visible in the Hinglish idiom of Paro and Priya; mythic hybridity, in which ancient narrative is reworked to speak to contemporary anxieties in Shakuntala: The Play of Memory and The Book of Shadows; and historical hybridity, in which the colonial encounter itself becomes the ground on which identity is contested in Things to Leave Behind. Across these registers, Gokhale's women protagonists, Paro, Priya, Rachita, Shakuntala, and Tilottama, are shown to negotiate rather than resolve the contradictions of their inheritance, producing a model of postcolonial Indian identity that is plural, unfinished, and resistant to singular definition.