THE VOICE OF THE MARGINALISED IN ROHINTON MISTRY’S A FINE BALANCE

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R. JESUDAS, K. CHELLADURAI

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Rohinton Mistry, the socio- political novelist, has emerged as a formidable writer in the world literary scene. As an Indian who now lives in and writes from Canada, he is a writer of the Indian Diaspora. His novels are closely linked with the social and political background. Like Nayantara sahgal, Salman Rushdie, Khushwant Singh and Shashi Tharoor, he is deeply involved with history. Rohinton Mistry is a Parsi by birth and an expatriate Indian writer living in Canada. As a Parsi, he sees himself as a symbol of double displacement and his sense of displacement is a recurring theme in his literary works. His historical situation involves construction of new identity in the nation to which he has migrated and a complex relationship with the political and cultural history of the nation, he has left behind. In his writings he often tries to revision the history of his home land. His spatial and temporal distance from his homeland prods him to undertake a literary journey back home. The voyage into the past is a strategy employed by the immigrant writers to reconstruct and his ethical identity and sense of self for survival in a world that is alien and often hostile. In his stories such as A Fine Balance and Tales from Firozsha Baag, Mistry articulates the ambivalent space between the two, his characters and narrator, sometimes in spite of himself, is engaged in defining his own hybridity. 

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