Volume III Special Issue V May 2023

Name of Author : Megharaj Wadeyar C, Dr. Ravi C M

Title of the paper : Rohinton Mistrys A Fine Balance: Exploring the Experience of Marginalized Pain

Abstract: A well-known author who comes from the Parsi community in India is Rohinton Mistry. He moved to Canada in his early 20s to pursue his dream of becoming a Pop singer. He has acknowledged in several interviews that he moved since it was the thing to do. He is an author who is describing the India that he saw and experienced in his youth in his writing. Mistry has portrayed the anguish and loss of immigrant writers who were born in India but are now living abroad in his novels. The setting of his 1995 novel A Fine Balance is an unknown city that the reader can identify as Bombay, the authors hometown. The lives of four protagonists, each quite distinct from the other, are the focus of A Fine Balance. Three people are thrown together in the same modest city apartment Maneck Kohlah, a student from a village at the foothills of the Himalayas Dinabhai, a widow who fights to make a meagre living as a seamstress and refuses to remarry and two tailors, Ishvar and Omprakash, uncle and nephew, who have come to the city in the hope of finding work. The issue of subaltern suffering in A Fine Balance is examined in this article.

Keywords : Marginalized Pain, Parsi community, Fine Balance

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Page Number : 170-173