The Pastiche of Discrepant “Minoritarian” Voices in Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss

Covert Hinduism, Overt Secularism : A Postsecular Reading of the Indian English Novelistic Tradition

“…Before he gets there, he is robbed twice of everything he had got in America and arrives at his father's naked and empty-handed. While some scholars consider Biju a discomfited man at this point (Spielman 2010, 82;Nanda 2018, 82), Di Tullio (2018 contends that Biju takes his physical and psychological sufferings as a penance, replacing the resentment against the American society with the relief of being home again-no longer an outcast. Being robbed of everything material he had acquired in the USA stands as an expiation to regain his lost "caste."…”