MULTICULTURALISM: CONCORD AND DISCORD IN RECENT INDIAN ENGLISH NOVEL.

A major theme of the Indian English novel in the twenty-first century revolves around this cultural instability. In this research paper I propose to discuss the impact of multiculturalism on the marginalised as observed in the fictional world Siddhartha Deb's The Point of Return (2003) and Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss (2006) . Siddharth Deb, hails from a second generation peasant family taking refugee in North East India during the partition. Deb in his first novel The Point of Return(2003) writes about the much neglected North East Indian states, the region nearest to the border of China. The Inheritance of Loss (2006) by Kiran Desai, is a story of two generations -those who have lived in colonial India and the other who are struggling to establish a new India. The novels of the twenty-first century are a dictum on the relevance of a strong cultural bond in the world that is torn by religious disparities and ethnic violence.