Kiran Desai

appearances of formerly subjugated people. It produces negative self-image and alienation from their indigenous cultures (Tyson, 2006, 419). Kiran Desai was born in 1971 and one of the best writers in India. She was fifteen years old when she left for England with her mother, Anita Desai, who is also a well-known author. After a year they moved to the U.S.A, where Desai has lived till date. She is a part of the Indian Diaspora. She is a citizen of India and a permanent resident of the United States of America

declaration of guilt, the unqualified acceptance of authority of America is marked. For Biju, immigration is a load. Biju sends America by his father to improvise his status form low level. Biju comes to a bitter awareness on the situation of immigrant. Desai aptly reveals her own feelings and thoughts clearly through Biju. The readers surely concern with the Biju’s character. Stuart Hall, in his study on multiculturalism, checks that in the progress of migration, the idea of “otherness” and the consciousness

TITLE : The Inheritance Of Loss AUTHOR : Kiran Desai PUBLISHER : Penguin Books India YEAR OF PUBLICATION : 2006 Kiran Desai is an Indian author. She was born in India in 1971. At the age of fourteen she moved to England. Her novel ‘ The Inheritance Of Loss’ won the Man booker Prize for the year 2006 and the National Book Critics Circle fiction award. Desai is the youngest female to win the Booker prize. She is a part of Indan Diaspora. As a south Asian diapora writer she gives voice to people who

The dominant idiom of Indian writing today is firmly entrenched in pain, anxiety of displacement, nostalgia, yearning to belong to roots, and so on. Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things and Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss are two such novels that explore the tragedy of man on several levels using different perspectives. Both the novels are about averted culture-clash tragedies, homogeneity vs. heterogeneity, and about Indian sensibilities. This paper attempts to examine the fictional projections

Introduction Kiran Desai is an Indian writer. In the age of fifteen years, she left India for England with her mother. Her mother’s name is Anita Desai, who is also a recognized writer. After a year they moved to the America, where Desai has lived till date. She is a citizen of India and a permanent resident of the America. She is a part of the Indian diaspora. Kiran Desai’ first novel is Hullaballo in the Guava Orchard. In this novel, she is dexterously able to portray male psyche. She won Booker

Women’s Language: A history of Indian-English Women Writers. “Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time. Indeed if woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance; very various; heroic and mean; splendid and sordid; beautiful and hideous in the extreme; as great as a man, some would say greater. But this is woman in fiction. In fact, as Professor Trevelyan points out, she was locked

As might be expected from the rich input of her cultural background, Kiran Desai, daughter of the author Anita Desai is a born story-teller. Her first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard (1998), is a fresh look at life in the sleepy provincial town of Shahkot in India. At 35 years old, Desai is the youngest woman ever to win the prize and was already highly acclaimed in literary circles for her first novel ‘Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard’ which won a Betty Trask award [2] when it was published

of loss, is a moving novel by Indian writer Kiran Desai, whereby we see the effect of colonialism and post colonialism and the consequence that comes with it. Many critical themes are explored, Leach lists them as “colonialism, a revolution, multi-ethnic nationhood and illegal immigration in the US, where political allegiance impacts on love affairs, and where the reality of life in a grubby New York basement reshapes the American Dream” (2007). Desai mentions many of these historical events in her

Department of English Acharya Nagarjuna University Guntur swathitvn@gmail.com Winner of the Booker prize 2006, Kiran Desai was born in India in 1971. Daughter of an eminent Indian English author Anita Desai, she has carved out a name for herself as a novelist by writing just two novels, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard and The Inheritance of Loss. Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard is in the form of a fable and

extending from loss to poverty, gain, to wealth, justice to injustice. The Inheritance of Loss is a political and historical novel, but the truth is that in spite of its political and historical extents, it is a socio-cultural work of fiction. Desai pursues to redefine human culture, the elements of love