A Story of Scattered Hearts: Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss

Human beings are so fragile and impatient that they are easily subjected on emotional basis. It is in human nature that they empathise everything that emotionally attach with them. Emotion plays a vital role in the entire world of human relationship. It is not inept to note here that our thoughts are often forms the core of our actions. It reflects the framework of our psychology greatly. There are instances in the world of living where one work affects because of the mood of a person. Deliberately, the writers across the world develop and circle their thoughts around emotional balance of human beings in various points. They successfully stress the effect of a particular crisis and it’s outcomes on human mind. The present research paper deals with the effects of such crisis on the lives of human being who are deeply engulfed in their normal life. The study is a sincere endeavour to bring to the fore a serious effect of Nepali-a politically motivated-uprising on the common man living peacefully, amicably in harmony with nature.


Introduction
Kiran Desai with her 'strange happening in the guava orchard' was introduced to the literary world by Sir Salman Rashdie-a literary stalwart. A daughter of the renowned novelist and three times the man booker prize shortlisted novelist Anita Desai, Kiran developed the literary taste and imbibe it in a homely atmosphere from her mother. Her mother's advice of opting for Creative Writing Program proved beneficial to her. She accumulated her literary assets and using them in her first work brought her the Bretty Trask Prize-an award given to the new writers of commonwealth nation under the age of thirty five for their maiden novel by the society of authors since 1984. Kiran Desai bagged the prize for her first novel published in 1998 Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard in the same year. The novelist of a critically acclaimed maiden novel, she took a seven year break. She appeared on the literary zone and brightly lightening it with her second novel The Inheritance of Lossin 2006 receiving the most coveted the Man Booker Prize in the same year. She is the youngest novelist to win such an award which lured her novelist mother almost three times.
Kiran Desai is an Indian born author lives in US with her mother Anita Desai. She lived in India till the age of fourteen and left for England with her mother. She spent nice time living Gyan is a twenty years old, a graduate student; an unemployed; handsome youth. His family living in dire conditions expects him to get employment as soon as it is possible.  www.ijellh.com 176 movement takes a wrong turn in looting the rich, raping women, and encroaching the land of non-natives by setting small huts on the land of non-natives.
The lives of non-natives begin to disturb by the outrageous activities of the political uprising. The retired judge's house is invaded by a band of notorious youth who get in for guns of the retired judge. They are informed by Gyan, Sai's tutor and lover putting his lady love in danger. The horrified cook first by witnessing the bitter violence at the market and now at his master's home begs mercifully to spare his life only to see his son again. His master, the retired judge is humiliated in front of his granddaughter and his servant. They leaves the place by looting, guns and defecating the toilet. The cook is believed to be suspect in the case of robbery.
He also losses his contact with Biju, his son. death on the cause of losing the 'Mutt'. In fact, the bitch is stolen by the drunken man's wife and father to earn money by selling her to a rich person. The drunken man is caught from the market on the suspicion of robbing guns from Cho Oyu as it is a poor person who bear the brunt of police suspicion.

Conclusion
In conclusion, all the characters in the novel 'The Inheritance of Loss' are suffered bitterly as they lose their hearts for some or a particular reason in the wake of GNLF movement.
They are caught in the whirlpool of destined circumstances only to suffer a loss of dignity, love, care, money, property, peace, human values etc. in no reason. They become the puppets in the hands of destiny and find no solace till the end of the story. Their expectations turn disassociating themselves from their goal of living amicably with the natural surroundings of the Hillside and shattering their dreams only to return with a heavy heart to their miserable state. The novelist Kiran Desai has succeeded in her attempt to bring the sufferings of such losses to the fore of academic international level. It is her modest effort to give a voice to the bitter experiences of such lives who suffered a lot on the basis of discrimination. The novel is recognized as highlighting the universal truth as the 'otherness' belongs to all.