Narrative technique and communicative context of a multicultural society in Kiran Desai’s novel the inheritance of loss

The architectonic and structural quality of the narrative technique in postmodern Indian English novel has undergone a metamorphosis, and it has made the novels more sophisticated in structure and unity. The objective of studying the use of the narrative techniques in a text is to analyse the forms of narratives regarding the common features, the divergent elements, and the combinations of features employed by the narrator to skillfully connect them into a fabric that the reader or spectator recognizes as a narrative. The present paper aims to explore how the words and phrases from the Indian languages that Kiran Desai uses in her novel The Inheritance of Loss are culture specific and go a long way in conveying certain aspects of the Indian culture and ethos to the readers.