Kiran Desai’s novel The Inheritance of Loss (2006) depicts the lives of its main characters – a judge, his 16 year old granddaughter Sai, and the son of their cook, Biju- at specific moment in India’s colonial and national history and amid a fast- changing, increasingly globalized world. Deploying a selfreflexive narrative style which combines humour , a sense of grotesque and the tragic, the text presents an emotional and affective parallel to the political and economic complexities of postcolonial globalization. The emergence of globalisation and internet superhighway coupled with liberalization of economy has accelerated the attraction of diasporic life. Consequently, its consequences find the most fruitful expression in Kiran Desai’s novels. Her innovations and new techniques of fiction provide richness and projection to the diasporic panorama in the twenty-first century.
Research Scholar, P.G. Department of English and Research Centre, Magadh University, Bodh-Gaya
