Cultural Dilemmas Globalization and Misconception Depicted in Kiran Desai’s Novel - The Inheritance of Loss

Cultural dilemmas seem to be everywhere as the world has become a global village due to communication and technological developments and so people come across people of diverse cultures, traditions and practices. To be competent and successful in the present business world of electronic communication, transaction, transportation, banking, commerce etc., it becomes a necessity to identify, analyze and reconcile the cultural dilemmas by realizing the cultural adaptive solutions. It also becomes vital to respect the culture. Differences as it also involve creating new ways to resolve cultural dilemmas in order to be transculturally comperent with the diverse global community. These cultural dilemmas and is differences are depicted in Kirun Desal’s The Inheritance of Loss through the character Jemubhai Patel, the embittered retired judge living in a crumbled house. The novel is the remembrance of Jemubhai Patel’s journeys, arrivals and departures which brings forth Jentolici Patel’s cultural dilemmas whether to inherit the Indianess or to follow the western ideals. It highlights the bitter experience a man faces in his transition to a different culture and the need of the hour is to overcome those differences.