EXPLORING THE IMPACT OF GLOBALIZATION ON IDENTITY, CULTURE, AND HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS IN KIRAN DESAI'S 'INHERITANCE OF LOSS'

Kiran Desai is one of the talented and ambitious younger Indian diasporic writers who have a significant role in portraying and reflecting the difficulties and complexities of the experiences of the immigrants in literature. Kiran Desai’s most notable novel, “The Inheritance of Loss” (2006) is set in Kalimpong, which is situated at the foot of mount Kanchenjunga in the North Eastern part of post -Independence India. This novel explores immigration, relationships and identity on both the interpersonal and international scale. Spanning India, England, and the United States, the novel details the conflict between traditional Indian ways of life and the shiny opulence of Western nations. The book won several awards, including the Man Booker Prize in 2006 and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award in 2007. Desai wrote the book in the seven years following her 1998 debut, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard. The novel highlights some of the outstanding issues of contemporary society such as globalization, marginalization, subordination, economic inequality, exploitation, poverty, nationalism, insurgency, immigration, hybridity, racial discrimination and political violence.To sum up , the novel deals with the conflict of culture , on the global level ; and on the personal level it deals with the internal conflict if identity ( the past and present ). In THE INHERITANCE OF LOSS, Desai tries to capture the pain and dilemma of an immigrant.