Disopora of Inheritance of Loss

In the novel “ Village By The Sea “ by Anita Desai tells the problem faced in Indian villagers which can be noticed from two characters, Hari and Lila. From the book we can experience the Indian culture and their way of life through the life faced by the characters. I feel that the book is distinctive and special in a way, as it alternates between the view of Hari and Lila. It also has an effect on the readers, when Hari goes to the city of Bombay and Lila is in the village of Thul. From these two point of view we can get the idea of similarities and differences between city and village life.

The dominant idiom of Indian writing today is firmly entrenched in pain, anxiety of displacement, nostalgia, yearning to belong to roots, and so on. Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things and Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss are two such novels that explore the tragedy of man on several levels using different perspectives. Both the novels are about averted culture-clash tragedies, homogeneity vs. heterogeneity, and about Indian sensibilities.

Most of the stories provide us with details about the experiences of first and second generation Indian immigrants in the United States, even though the characters vary greatly, they have corresponding troubles in their lives; “Lahiri constructs a conversation among her pieces” (Brada-Williams 453).

People may speak out words in life that may affect themselves and other after losing someone that was significant, which can connect to Indian and Pakistani literature. All parts of a struggle coming back to a character facing the past being alone in life can create emotions overall. Readers must comprehend that people in society today can relate to Indian and Pakistani literature where one feels alone. A reader who looks at Indian and Pakistani literature can understand that people with struggles in India or Pakistan countries can go through a lot with their emotional past. For the most part, the significance of Indian and Pakistani literature is to make a reader acknowledge how going through a tough situation can cause circumstances that get emotional for a character's self and others around them. In today's society, people may associate to this literature to distinguish a relationship with people being alone through the countries India and

Anita Desai has added a new dimension to the achievement of Indian women writers in English fiction through novels like Cry The Peacock, Voices In The City, Where Shall We Go This Summer, Fasting Feasting, Fire On The Mountain and many more.

“T-Tyler, we can’t g-go back tomorrow. M-Mama w-would go ballistic! And dad- crap, Tyler this was a b-bad idea. Bad bad bad idea. W-Why did you let me cut my hair?! Oh go-”

The novel Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee is an incredible story about the transformation and life experiences of a Panjabi girl from India. The life of Jyoti is told from her point of view when she is twenty-four years old, and pregnant with the baby of Bud Ripplemeyer, a crippled banker who is more than twice Jyoti’s age. During the span of two months in Iowa, Jyoti narrates her biographical experiences in Punjab and in America as she strives to become independent. Jasmine illustrates that when one’s relationships go through changes, it will impact one’s identity.

Her characters are often caught in a cultural indeterminate state excited about their new home but grieving the loss of their country of origin. Her characters speak about the glory of common life, “I know that my achievement is quite ordinary. I am not the only man to seek his fortune far from home, and certainly I am not the first. . . . As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination.” (Lahiri, IOM 198).

Today, she is considered to be one of the most popular contemporary immigrant or expatriate writers living in America.Using her inimitable style and intense first-hand experiences, she vividly describes the predicament of Indian women immigrants in the new world where cultures confluence in to a modern way of life filled with chaos and violence. For immigrant women, life in the new world means endless rebirths and redefinitions in thoughts, identities, personalities, cultures, attitudes and world view. Bharati Mukherjee’s novels brilliantly portray the trauma of immigrant women psyche in all its natural colours and minute details in the process of cultural transformation or transfiguration. When the immigrant protagonists are violently immersed into a mix of diverse and unrelated cultures, they experience a sense of awe, confusion, nostalgia, rootlessness and identity crisis.Because of her faithful portrayal of such an extremely complex experience of the process of immigration and the life of immigrant women, the works of Bharati Mukherjee are considered today as one of the authentic chroniclers of contemporary immigrant life in

On the other he has to undergo a heart-breaking loss. He has to tolerate, the loss of power and position to which he reconcile himself with plenty seriousness and concern. This loss of family relationship is one of major issues in Indian society that Kiran Desai relates in this novel.

Many a writers of Indian Diaspora have expressed their true emotions and fear through their writing in multifaceted ways. For the non resident Indian writers the struggle is everywhere, whereas the Indians trapped in the cultural conflict in their country itself endure a constant struggle which ends nowhere leads nowhere. The Man Booker prize winning Indian works Midnight’s Children, The God of Small Things, The Inheritance of Loss, and The White Tiger are written with an intention to discuss the inner struggles faced by various elements of the society in India and outside India. The cultural confusion naturally suffered in the displaced society is experience by the characters of the novels in some or the way. They are not able to get rid

Juxtaposed to Mr. Chawla, Kulfi represents a typical Indian woman who is oppressed by existing gender roles and is always looked down on, “’There was always something odd about her,’ they said. ‘You could tell this from the minute she entered Shahkot’”. Despite this oppression, Kulfi still seeks to defy the traditional expectations around her, represented by her desire for non-traditional foods. “To her imagination, meals of such flavor and rarity” , “’Pheasants, peacocks, pomegranates’” .

Women writers of all ages have a natural preference for writing about women characters. Anita Desai is no exception in so far as she has written by women characters. Most of her novels move around women characters. She is preoccupied with the theme of incompatible marital couples. We come across different kinds of women characters in her novels. Many critics have addressed the theme of broken marriages and unmatched couples in her novels. She represents women 's mind and psyche in its varied moods. In one extreme there are sensitive characters, on the other hand the thick skinned women with a sensibility.

Escapism plays a very important role in the story of Anita Desai’s Clear Light of Day. The focus of this essay is to explore how this theme affects the relationship between Bim and Raja. Best friends and partners in crime, Bim and Raja share a love of literature and poetry, and are the closest of the four siblings. Eventually, however, Raja’s admiration of Hyder Ali leads him to Urdu poetry and an interest in Islamic culture, seeking an escape from the stifling, insipid atmosphere of his own home and life. What seems to have started as scholarly interest, and initially even draws Bim’s admiration, leads to Raja’s escape to Hyderabad to

Anita Desai is one of India 's foremost writers. She is an Indian novelist, short-story writer and children 's author. Winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award and Guardian Children 's Fiction Prize, Desai has authored as many as sixteen works of fiction, some of the best ones being 'Fasting, Feasting ', 'The Village By The Sea ', 'In Custody ', and 'Clear Light of Day '. Her distinct style of writing, her original characters and her realistic subject-line is what made her writings so endearing. Over the years, Desai won many awards and recognition for her work and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize twice. Apart from writing, Anita has been actively involved in teaching as well. She continues to be an inspiration for many young aspiring writers today.