"[9] In a review for World Literature Today, James Gerein describes the novel Mangoes on the Maple Tree as "largely a success, for it gives us a glimpse into the lives of a recent immigrant family and how they feel about their new home as well as the tensions among themselves.
"[10] In a review of the novel Maru and the Maple Leaf, Nilambri Ghai writes in Montreal Serai, "Parameswaran is very skilled in exploring centuries of relationships and bringing them together to a place in time that transcends a linear, chronological sequence of events.
"[12] Susheela Rao writes in World Literature Today that The Sweet Smell of Mother's Milk-Wet Bodice "is the common tale of an Indian girl, naive and accustomed to living in a joint family, now exposed to a foreign culture and environment" and in the novella, "Parameswaran skillfully depicts the condition of such women.
"[5] In Canadian Literature, Kuldip Gill writes, "Adaptation to a new country doesn't just produce a hybrid life, but rather a double consciousness, and a very deeply felt change of identity.
"[16] In a review of the poetry collection Sisters at the Well, John Oliver Perry writes in World Literature Today, "As in Trishanku, the main persona here clearly presents experiences, attitudes, and issues of a civically and academically active Indian-born woman happily married to an Indian man, attempting to accommodate to Canadian - more specifically Manitoban - life culturally and climatically, and raising their child to have some honest feelings like their own about India and about their probably always less than fully accepted, racially marked place in Canadian multicultural society.
"[18] In a review of Rootless But Green Are the Boulevard Trees for Canadian Review of Materials, Harriet Zaidman writes, "Despite the specific references the characters make to India and their heritage, plus some references to dated events and expressions that are no longer in common usage, the challenges these characters face apply to every group that has immigrated to this country in the past and at the present time" and that the play "would be an effective catalyst for discussion in today's high schools which are full of youth from every continent.
"[20] According to R. Vedavalli, in Critical Essays on Canadian Literature, "The promise of Sita, "I through my people, shall surely come again and we shall build our temple and sing our songs with all the children to all the different countries who make this their home" symbolizes Uma Parameswaran's vision of Canada, as a mosaic of cultures.