This article aims to explore the various facets of human relationships in the Legacy of Kiran Desai's Loss. This novel attempts to discuss at length the serious implications of colonized mentalities for individual, family and social life. Furthermore, this article makes a comprehensive analysis of colonialization, postcolonialism, cultural collisions, cultural encounters, gender biases, bitter experiences of immigrants, insurgency and racial discriminations as they relate to the evolution of human relations. It also shows how human relationships, even when influenced by love, desire, and cross-cultural contact, are handled competently and humanely, articulating diasporic experiences of nostalgia and in-betweenness. Kiran Desai, as the youngest woman to receive the coveted Man Booker Prize, was born in Chandigarh, India on September 3, 1971. Spending her early years in Pune and Mumbai, she received her early education at Cathedral and the John Connon School. After a few years of study in Delhi and England, she joined creative writing as if to focus all her attention in vigorously pursuing the development of her creative talent. Built around the fate of a few helpless individuals, Kiran Desai's second novel, The Inheritance of Loss, manages to explore human relationships from varied angles. “Human relationships are what a writer is involved in. Relationships from person to person and from person to society are the two main concerns of a certain writer. »1 The story largely takes place in parallel between Kalimpong, a small town at the foot of the Himalayas, and New York in the United States of America. . The Legacy of Loss provides a graphic description of richly varied human relationships: husband and wife, father and daughter, father and son, ma...... middle of paper ......Press, 1999: 377- 386. Print.Pryor, Fiona. “Review: The Legacy of Loss.” » BBC NEWS. [online]. Web.August 14, 2010Rao, Anjali. "Kiran Desai talks Asia interview". CNN.com. [online]. Web. May 15, 2010. Sinha, Sunita and Bryan Reynolds, Ed. Critical response to KiranDesai. New Delhi: Atlantic, 2009. Print.Swain, S.P.The female voice in Indian fiction.New Delhi:Asia Book Club.2005.Print.Sharma, Vijay K. and NeeruTandon.Ed.Kiran Desai and his fictional world: New Delhi: Atlantic,2009. Print. Williams, Patrick and Laura Christimas. Colonial discourse and postcolonial theory: AReader. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.Print.Williams, Raymond. “Realism and contemporary novel”, Literary criticism of the 20th century: a reader.Ed. David Loge. London: Long, 1972.Print.