The Inheritance of Loss discovers some of the important issues of present globalized world. The novel covers two countries, India and U.S.A, and takes up some of the important issues from feminism to the problem of immigration. The novel brings out the search for suppressed identity and the fight of a group of people against the hopelessness created after independence when the agitation of Gorkhaland was at its peak. The time segment is 1980 when the political ferment inside the country leads to dislocation of a normal life and further loss on all fronts. It also explores the uncontrollable temptation for fashionable life that leads to restlessness, economic injustice, multiculturalism and the agony of being a foreigner. The novel examines at a deeper level, the consequences of the