Elements Of Indianness In Kiran Desai's 'Inheritance Of Loss'

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Kiran Desai’s first novel, Hullabaloo in the guava orchard was published in 1998. She got the Betty Trask Award a prize given by the authors for the best novel by citizens of the common wealth nations and who are under the age of thirty five. Her second book “Inheritance of loss” was appreciated by the critics throughout Asia, Europe and the United States. Kiran Desai has won the man booker prize fellowship by the American academy.
Kamala Markandeya was also the great of Indian women writers. Nectar in a sieve is her debut novel. It depicts the rustic India and sufferings of farmers. Her novels explain the problems of Indian’s ordinary middle-class life and the effects of the modern technology on the people’s lives.
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The essence of Indianness is the young people of India. Contemporary fiction refers to the writing and a better quality of fiction. Contemporary fiction refers to the writings in the present times and also of the people living at present.
Chetan Bhagat is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi which is India’s leading university for engineering sciences and study. He is considering as a youth icon than a author. He started his literary career with his debut novel Five point someone, a imaginary account on life in IIT. Chetan Bhagat’s novels enclosed the entire country. He got a lot of readers. His status as a fiction writer is amazing.
Chetan Bhagat’s novels adopted by the film production, they are the India’s premier grossing movies. The novel Five point someone is transformed into Hindi movie Three Idiots, is a smash hit which was directed by Rajkumar Hirani. Chetan Bhagat is a Non-Resident Indian (NRI) and also citizen of Singapore. He is a full time
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Once a journalist asked about the use of records to his novel titles, he comically replied to the reporter as “I’m a banker, I can’t get numbers out of my head”. His novels are Five point someone(2004), one night at the call center(2007), the three mistakes of my life(2008), Two states: the story of my marriage(2009), revolution 2020: love corruption, ambition(2011), half girl friend(2014) and non-fiction as what young India wants(2014). His two awards are society young achiever’s award for five point someone in 2004 and publisher’s credit Award in 2005.All of his books are remarked as best sellers since their release and three have inspired into Bollywood

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