Indianness in the Novels of Rohinton Mistry with Refrence to Culture & Tradition

Abstract

Rohinton Mistry is an author belonging to Parsi community of Indian origin residing in Canada. He migrated to Canada in his early twenties as he wanted to become a Pop singer. He has confessed it even in various interviews that he migrated because it seems to be the fashion at his times. Youngsters of his generation used to migrate for better education, better career prospectus and other opportunities. Rohinton Mistry is one writer who basically deals with the themes of Immigration. Mistry in an author who is writing about a country namely India which he has seen and observed during his youth. Through his novels Mistry has beautifully expressed the pain and grief of immigrant writers who are born in India but staying away from their motherland. In all his works, Rohinton Mistry has not just written about India, but at the same time he has also revised and recalled the memories of his Parsi community also, as most of the characters of his novels are Parsi by religion. In all his novels the Parsi community is also shown as an outsider in Indian subcontinent.

Key Words: - Parsi, Migration, Diaspora,