Most recent diasporic fictions that came after 1980s stand out prominently by coalescing or separating the aspects of individual experience highlighting a wider web of issues and compulsions; in this sense, the projection of Third World histories and contemporary nationalist climate within the problematic posed by nations and cultures in transition, within the overall pressures exerted by globali sation, migration, movement and the powerful impacts of late capitalist developments. A position taken up by the subaltern studies group led by Dipesh Chakraborty sees independence and post -coloniality scripted or drawn in term s of this transition. However, it should also be understood that this transition(s), are conceived and worked out in the wake of relativism, which of course implies that any construction of the present from the point of view of difference, has to be in ter ms of a non -coeval development across nations and societies. At its most subtle level, if also the negative, the question of homogeneity and order precludes any ultimate conclusion. One may take a host of other writers, who have written out of this or that liminal, hybrid position, impactedness of imperial control, or a specific ethnic enclosure: in almost every case a disaffection and disquieting scene that must find a central focus informing the postcolonial or diasporic literary constructs. The paper att empts to investigate such aspects of importance in Kiran Desai ’s The Inheritance of Loss