LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 13:7 July 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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The Dark Sides of Indian Politics –
As Reflected in Rohinton Mistry’s
Such a Long Journey and A Fine Balance

Papiya Bhattacharjee, M.A. (English), UGC-NET

Introduction

Rohinton Mistry, born in Mumbai 1952, went to Canada in 1975 and since then lived there near Toronto. After migrating to Canada, he worked in a bank as well as studied at the University of Toronto. He is the recipient of several prestigious awards. His first novel ‘Such A Long Journey’ was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Governor General’s Award, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for the Best Book. His second novel ‘A Fine Balance’ (1995) won the Prestigious Giller Prize. In (1995), he got the prestigious Canada Australia Literary Prize.

One of the most remarkable features of Rohinton Mistry’s fiction is that it brilliantly captures the crowded, throbbing life of India. His novels are closely linked with social and political background. If one studies his novels from a political point of view, one realizes that Mistry’s knowledge of Indian politics is not at all far from reality, though he left India three decades ago to settle in Canada. His novels capture corruption, politically motivated schemes, political decisions, layman’s sufferings, caste problems, dominance of Zamindars, and inhuman condition of untouchable people in India. Mistry likes to write about India. Living in Canada and writing about India, Mistry is fully aware of several drawbacks of India’s social and political life, as discerned in his novels.

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