This study examines the complex depictions of suffering and human plight in Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss and Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger. Both books show characters trapped in oppressive institutions characterized by class hierarchy, colonial legacies, and economic inequality against the sociopolitical backdrop of postcolonial and globalized India. Desai's book explores psychological dislocation, cultural alienation, and fragmented identities through her diasporic characters, whereas Adiga's story centers on the harsh realities of caste, slavery, and social mobility through Balram Halwai's trip. It explores how suffering is rooted in internal moral, emotional, and existential struggles as well as external structures using comparative literary analysis and postcolonial theoretical frameworks. According to the study, both authors highlight the complexity of suffering as a condition and a result, and they present situation as a mirror of the ongoing difficulties of modern Indian society rather than just a plot device. The study examines how the characters in both novels experience pain, captivity, and internal turmoil as a result of systemic injustices, colonial and post-colonial legacies, migration, identity crises, and moral quandaries. In the end the study emphasizes how personal resistance, flight, and surrender arise from these multi-layered experiences, providing significant understanding of the price of survival and the difficulties of being a person in a broken world.
Atikur Rahman (Tue,) studied this question.