A Post-colonial Identity shift of the protagonists in the novel The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai

Abstract

Kiran Desai is the brightest young writer in Indian diasporic literature today. She is the daughter of Anita Desai, who also writes diaspora in Indian English. She has focused primarily on her secondinfluencial novel entitled „The inheritance of Loss,‟ which won the highest-ranked Man Booker award in 2006, which included Fifty Years of Indian Writing anthology with Salman Rushdie.She was the third Indian to have won Booker awards along with Salman Rushdie and Arundhati Roy. Critics from across Asia, Europe, and the United States have universally praised, reviewed, and read this novel. Kiran Desai unfolded a love story about Sai and Gyan in the background of the insurgency movement, commenting on several globalization issues with great mercy and intimacy.In the Third World countries, marginalization has caused many issues for self-awareness. Here, loss of self and restoration is the narrative‟s main question. This paper examines the failure of the main characters and its change in identity in the global post-colonial world.