Vol. 7, Issue 2, Part I (2025)

This paper offers a critical analysis of the prevailing themes and literature devices in the chosen novels of Kiran Desai, hullabaloo in the guava orchard (1998) and The Inheritance of Loss (2006), and puts her works in the context of postcolonial Indian-English and global diasporic literature. The paper highlights the roles of Desai in developing identity, globalization, alienation, and power out as being central issues that define individual and group experience. Her characters frequently have problems connected to rootlessness, identities fractured in various ways, and cultural hybridity that reflects the negotiating issues of a world that must deal with the colonial pasts and global changes. Desai is able to humanize the processes of psychological complexity involved in displacement, cultural negotiation, and generational differences through multiperspectival narratives and stylistic trickery techniques like magical realism, irony, satire, and symbolism. Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard uses humor, absurdity and magical realism to satirize bureaucracy, mindless religiosity, false fronts of modernity and offers a satirical allegory of tradition against progress. The Inheritance of Loss, on the other hand, explores the mental weight of colonial legacies, the trauma of displacement, and the sense of dislocation in a world of the ever more globalized and politically unstable world. The text attracts attention to the way Desai criticizes the absurdity of the institution and reveals the socio-economic inequalities and discusses universal feelings of nostalgia, longing, and loss. Such a study highlights the fact that she has been able to combine postcolonial interests with narrative creativity, which places her among the most influential diasporic authors whose fiction is both insightful and deeply moving. Finally, the analysis shows how the local and the global intersect in the oeuvre of Desai as it is shown that the literary vision articulated by her still questions the issues of belonging, power, and memory in the modern world.