Introduction: Kiran Desai (born 3rd September 1971), daughter of the noted Indian English author Anita Desai, is a diasporan Indian author permanently settled in the United States. So far there are two novels to her credit. Her first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, was published in 1998, it received accolades from great contemporary writers including Salman Rushdie. According to Rushdie, “Kiran Desai is a terrific writer.” The novel Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard also won the Betty Trask Award, a prize given by the Society of Authors for the best new novels by citizens of the Commonwealth of Nations under the age of 35. This novel is set in the Indian village of Shahkot (State of Punjab)and follows the exploits of a young boy trying to avoid the responsibilities of adult life. Kiran Desai’s second novel The Inheritance of Loss written over a period of seven years was first published in 2006,it won the Man Booker Prize for the same year as well as the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award in 2007.