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Abstract Depiction of social reality has always beckoned the authors, dramatists and poets of all times. In fact it is their commitment to bring out the prevailing social scenario through their works. Indian English writers are not an exception to this dictum. The writers like Raja Rao , Mulk Raj Anad and R K Narayan are the first generation of writers who have evoked the social reality through their epic novels. However after the post-colonialism, there was a second generation of Indian writers like V S Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, Kiran Deasi and Arvind Adiga who have carved a niche in the Indian Writing in English by way of their extraordinary novels. They all are awarded with a Man Booker Prize. It is for their exposition of the contemporary issues like poverty, unemployment, corruption, moral degeneration of the self-centered societies; illiteracy, cultural hegemony, identity etc. Their characters are the spokespersons of the newly evolving society. This paper attempts to discuss the portrayal of the deprived which is one of the prominent themes of the above mentioned writers� work. Kiran Desai�s The Inheritance of the Loss is a novel under the study.