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Inheritance Of Loss Essay

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Kiran Desai’s GNLF Movement in “The Inheritance of Loss”

Abstract Kiran Desai was the youngest winner of the coveted booker prize for her second novel, The inheritance of loss. The novel depicts the effect the agitation has on Sais 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. The novel deals about the rigid class systems that exist in India and abroad among Indians, and the struggles that the people face within these classes after colonialism.
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The Inheritance of Loss is set against the backdrop …show more content…

It is Noni, Sai’s private tutor before Gyan, who encourages Sai to discover love and her individual identity as she never has love “at all” in her life. The sisters struggle to live in a world of postcolonial chaos and disorder. There are , like the judge, an unwanted machronism in postcolonial India where long-suppressed peoples have begun to awaken to their dereliction, to express their anger and despair. For the judge as well as the sisters in Kalimpong, this comes as a distinct shock: “Just when lola had thought it would continue, a hundred years like the one past-Trollope, BBC, a burst of hilarity at Christmas- all of a sudden, all that they had claimed innocent, fun, funny,not really to matter, was proven …show more content…

Stuck in the past…he has not progressed. Colonial neurosis, he’s never freed from it”. Lola goes on to accuse Naipaul of ignoring the fact that there is a “new England,” a “completely cosmopolitan society” where “ chicken tikka masala has replaced fish and chips as the NO.1 takeout dinner.” As further evidence, she mentions her own daughter, pixie(Piyali Banerjee), a newsreader for BBC radio, who “doesn’t have a chip on her shoulder”. The “sanitized elegance “ of Pixies’s British-assented voice is “triumphant over any horrors the world might thrust upon others.” The two sisters have a running feud with the “beak-nosed” Mrs.Sen whose daughter Mun Mun is in the US working for the CNN and whom the authorities keep begging to apply for and have a green card. Their world comes crashing down when the GNLF agitators make themselves comfortable in Mon Ami and later squat on the terraced garden. Lola is shocked beyond belief when she goes to plead for help to the local GNLF who styles himself as the “raja of Kalimpong”. The man insults and humiliates Lola by telling her that he already has four young and beautiful wives. If he ever needed a fifth wife, the old, widowed Lola has nothing

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