KIRAN DESAI: THE INHERITANCE OF LOSS

Kiran Desai was the youngest winner of the coveted Booker Prize for her second novel, The Inheritance of Loss - an honour that had eluded her celebrated mother Anita Desai despite have been shortilisted thrice earlier. Set against the backdrop of the Gorkhaland Movement (1986-88) in the Darjeeling hills, the novel depicts the effect the agitation has on Sai's family in kalimpong, which consists to of her maternal grandfather Jemubhai Patel, a retired indge, his dog Mutt, and the cook. On a parallel track, the novel follows the journey of Biju, the cook's son, as an illegal immigrant in the United States and his eventual return home. This critical study of the novel analyses and explores the major theme of the loss of identity and the way it travels through generations as a sense of loss. A number of critical and textual problems have been answered at the end from the point of view of university examinations. Shakti Batra has been Vice-principal, Dyal Singh College (University of Delhi), has also taught at the Kabul University and the University of Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek.

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