KIRAN DESAI AS AN EMERGING POST – COLONIAL WRITER WITH THE SKILL FOR EXPLORATION OF HUMAN PSYCHE AND ALIENATION IN HER FICTIONAL WORLD: AN APPRAISAL

This paper examines the literary qualities of the earliest writers writing in English focusing on the theme of alienation and identity crisis as some sort of experience of colonial consciousness touching on the nature and character of the Indian mind deriving from an age – old civilization with its unique values and world – view, projecting in particular Kiran Desai as an emerging post – colonial writer with the skill for exploration of the human psyche of individuals and alienated self pictured in her fictional world. It neatly projects alienation as nothing but the human condition – the predicament of the modern man who is deprived as anonymous and impersonal in an urbanizing mass uprooted from all values and also as disorganization of one’s sensibilities, loss of identity and estrangement from one’s surrounding and its accepted values, for Kiran Desai’s Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard and The Inheritance of Loss deserve analysis and evaluation here in this paper to bring home the point that Desai’s novels are nothing but eye – openers for people to realize how and why people alienate themselves from society.