POVERTY VS PRIVILEGE IN KIRAN DESAIS THE INHERITANCE OF LOSS

The research paper explores how the the Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai discuss the ides of class, privilege and post colonial anxiety through the lives of characters. The paper analyzes the characters thoughts, emotions and action by expanding our understanding of how they suffer from feeling of loss, confusion and powerlessness in world shaped by the past.The author Kiran Desai paints a world full of bleak, somber, uncertain, and insecure atmosphere for the immigrants like Biju who symbolically represent the whole brood of immigrants, especially, the illegal ones, always groping in dusk of despair for something they need but eludes their grasp. And the title The Inheritance of Loss is highly metaphorical and richly appropriate to the novel.Kiran Desai published her novel The Inheritance of Loss in 2006. The theme and content of Kiran Desais The Inheritance of Loss, the Booker Prize winning novel is entirely different. Kiran Desai takes a wider canvas of her subject which touches upon various issues that have relevance to the present day life. She has created literary history by being the youngest woman ever to win the prestigious Man Booker Prize for fiction at the age of thirty five.