LITERATURE REVIEW:

1] Dodiya, Jaydipsinh (edi). The Fiction of Rohinton Mistry, (critical studies). New Delhi: Prestige book, 1998. ISBN: 0861323955

There are number of critical essays included by different authors. The researcher will study of each easy and if will be help to come concludes work.

2] Roy, Anjali Gera and Pillai, Meena T. Rohinton Mistry: An Anthology of Recent Critical. New Delhi: Pencraft of International, 2007.

ISBN. 81-85753-81-4

It is an Anthology of recent criticism on Rohinton Mistry’s works. There are number of essays include on different topics as, General essays, Tales from Firorsha Baag, such a Long Journey, A Fine Balance, R Family mothers

3] Dhawan, R.K. Indian – American Diasporic Literature. New Delhi: Prestige Books International, 2013.

ISBN 978-93-82186-20-5

This book is also the collection of essays which are written on different topics by different authors.

4] Agrawal, Malti. New Perspectives on Indian English writings. New Delhi: Atlantic, 2007.

ISBN 81-269-0689-8

This book deals with that Indian Writing in English initially emerged as an offshoot of English literature but soon it established itself as different from all other literature. It, gradually, became a powerful medium of expression in the hands of the Indian writers to relate their native feelings in alien medium.

5] Pandit, M.L. New Commonwealth writing: A Critical Response. New Delhi: Prestige, 1996.

ISBN 81-7551-007-2 It is a wonderful book to study of new commonwealth literature an critical point of view and if will be helpful to researcher to come conclude the research work.

6] Verna, K.D. The Indian Imagination: Critical Essays on Indian writing in English. United States of America: Macmillan Press Ltd, 2000.

ISBN. 0-333-91522-4.

The Indian Imagination is an Interdisciplinary study in the humanities and critical disclose an patterns of consciousness. Essentially a work in twentieth – Century literature, this book focuses on riots of Indian history.

7] Reddy, P. Bayapa. Aspects of Contemporary World Literature. New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers and Distributors (p) Ltd, 2008.

ISBN. 978-81-269-0975-9

The book, Aspects of Contemporary worlds literature deals with different kinds of aspects of world literature as, Jhunpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies on the base of home and Abroad.

8] Boehmer, Elleke. Colonial and postcolonial literature, migrant Melaphors (edi II). London: Oxford University Press, 2005.

ISBN. 0-19-925371-4 (ptk), 978-0-19-925371-5 (pbk)

The new Alterword, “Belated Reading”, books at new developments and current preoccupations in past colonialism, particularly as concerns the impact, or not, of global forces an postcolonial writing and studies.

9] Tamilselvi, B. Language in India, Strength for Today and Bright hope for Tomorrow, volume 12:8 August 2012 (Diasporic Elements in Rohinton Mistry’s Tales from Firozsha Baag.

ISBN. 1930-2940 Rohinton Mistry’s historical situation involves construction of new identity in the nation to which he has migrated and a complex relationship with the cultural history of the nation, he has left behind. He dramatizes the pangs of alienation yet; finally these lead to the fruits of adaption, in India and abroad for the Parsis.

10] Walder, Dennis. Postcolonial Nostalgias: Writing, Representation and memory. New York and London: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2011.

ISBN. 13:978-0-415-62829- (pbk)

This book consists of a series of comparative relation upon the represent representation in literary and occasionally, related cultured forms of memory, and especially those aspects of memory that has a special resonance for migrants and others an entangled by the long histories of colonialism-that is nostalgia.

11] Parry, Benita. Post Colonial Studies: a materialist critique. London: Routledge, 2007.

ISBN: 978-0415-33600-0 (PB)

This volume presents a powerful selection of reprinted and new essays by one of the most important critics in postcolonial studies. This text offer an outline of the historical and personal contexts from which parry’s work has emerged, a series of essays that vigorously challenge colonial discourse theory and post colonialism as we have know them and details a series of readings of well-known text by authors including kipling, Conrad, Wells and Forester.

12] Dr. Balchandran, K. Critical Essays on Diasporic Writings. New Delhi: Arise Publishers & Distributors, 2008.

ISBN 9787-81-89937-42-3

This book deals with in the globalization era everyone wants to move out of his or her native soil for a better living. Indian Engineers, Doctors, computer Scientist and other professionals, migrates to various parts of the world for a better position and perks. Indian writers are not an exception to this. 13] Jain, Jasbir. Dislocation and Multiculturalism: Essay in Hangae to Professor R.K. Kans. Jaypur: Prem Rawat for Rewet publication, 2008.

ISBN 81-70033-873-5

This book deals with at multiple levels of arithmetic and semiotic meaning, have social and psychological dimensions and condition within them apposite like desire and fear, adventure and disaster, trauma and hope. It is an ending journey which we have merely begun.

14] Dhawan, R.K. and Arora, Neema. Partition and Indian Literature: voices of

the wondered psyche. New Delhi: Prestige on International publication house, 2010.

ISBN 81-7851-063-4

This book is a collection of several essays on different topics of partition as, Foregrounding the marginal: Narrative Strategies in the partition fiction by woren narrators by Seema Malik, Gender Psyche and the politics of power in partition literature etc.

15] Sistani, Shahram & Dhawan, R.K. New Dimension in Contemporary Literature. New Delhi: Prestige Books International, 2013.

ISBN: 978-93-82186-19-9

This book is also a collection of critical essays on different topic. In this collection multiple kinds of essays like, marginalized Issues in the plays of Girish Karnard by Gogineni Nagajyhothi, Discovery of the self: portragal of women in Sudha Murthey’s Getly falls the Bakula and Girish karnard’s Nagamandala: Play with a Cobra by K. Tejaswami etc.

16] Biyani, Kaushlesh. Rohinton Mistry: A Fine Balance. (New York: Random House Inc. 1996) P. 4. Unlike the Partition of India of 1947, much has been written about the “Special Internal Emergency” of 1975 – 77 and suspension of civil liberties, by then Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Amongst these, Rohinton Mistry’s fictional work A Fine Balance stands out, for its unique history-from-below take on the situation through the perspective of the poor.

17] Mistry, Rohinton. A Fine Ballance, Vintage: September, 1995.

With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency, in whose upheavals four strangers--a spirited widow, a young student uproote.

18] Mistry, Rohinton. Family Matters, Vintage: January, 2002.

Rohinton Mistry’s enthralling novel is at once a domestic drama and an intently observed portrait of present-day Bombay in all its vitality and corruption. At the age of seventy-nine, Nariman Vakeel, already suffering from Parkinson’s disease, breaks an ankle and finds himself wholly dependent on his family. His step-children, Coomy and Jal, have a spacious apartment.

19] Mistry, Rohinton. Such a Long Journey, Macklelland and Stewart: April 2006.

It is Bombay in 1971, the year India went to war over what was to become Bangladesh. A hard-working bank clerk, Gustad Noble is a devoted family man who gradually sees his modest life unravelling. His young daughter falls ill; his promising son defies his father’s ambitions for him. He is the one reasonable voice amidst the ongoing dramas of his neighbours.

20] Mistry, Rohinton. Swimming Lessons and other stories from Firozsha Baag Vintage: January, 1987. Firozsha Baag is an apartment building in Bombay. Its ceilings need plastering and some of the toilets leak appallingly, but its residents are far from desperate, though sometimes contentious and unforgiving. In these witty, poignant stories, Mistry charts the intersecting lives of Firozsha Baag, yielding a delightful collective portrait of a middle- class Indian community.

21] Eustace, John. Desegulating the Evaluated Body: Rohinton Mistry’s Studie in Canadian Literature 28, No. 1 (2003): 26-42.

In the following essay, Eustace focuses on the preponderance of fecal matter in Mistry's various works, particularly in the short story “Squatter.”

22] Amantrai, Ranci. States of Belonging: Pluratism Migrancy, Literature, “Essays on Canadian Writing’’, no. 57 (1995): 33 – 58.

In the following essay, Samantrai explores aspects of modern Western culture and the immigrant's role in its evolution, using Mistry's Swimming Lessons as an example of how the immigrant views this ongoing change. In Canada, normally so open to immigrants, a blatant ethnocentricity condemns people of color to the sidelines: eternal immigrants forever poised on the verge of not belonging.

23] Heble, Ajay. “A Foreign Presence in the Stall: Toward a Poetics of Cultural Hybridity in Rohinton Mistry’s Migration Stories” Canadian Literature, no. 137 (1993): 51-61.

In the following essay, Heble discusses the role of personal identity, cultural dislocation, and the difficulties inherent in emigrating to a new country.

24] Rose, Rober L. Seeking and Maintaining Ballance: “Rohinton Mistry’s Fiction World Literature Today 3, No. 2 (1999) 239-44.

In the following essay, Ross presents an overview of Mistry's career, citing factors behind his critical success, and contends that Mistry's balancing of elements within his fiction is its most appealing aspect.

25] Bharuch, Nilufer E. From Behind a Fine Veil : A Femenist Reading of three Parsi Novels, Indian Literature 39, No. 5 (1996) 32-41. In the following essay, Ross presents an overview of Mistry's career, citing factors behind his critical success, and contends that Mistry's balancing of elements within his fiction is its most appealing aspect.

26] Malak Amin “The Shaharadic Tradition: Rohinton Mistry’s Such a Long Journey and the Art of Story Telling” Journal of Commonwealth literature 28, no. 2 (1993) 108-18.

In the following essay, Malak focuses on Mistry's storytelling techniques, likening them to the Shahrazadic tradition, which he believes Mistry has subtly melded with the Western style of narrative.

27] Bharuch, Nilufere. E. “When Old Tracks Are Lost: Rohinton Mistry’s Fiction as Diasporic Discourse”. Journal of Commonwealth Literature 30, no. 2(1995):57 64.

In the following essay, Bharucha examines Mistry's writing as part of the Indian Diaspora and the expatriate's identification with and alienation from both his old and new countries. As an Indian who now lives in and writes from Canada, Rohinton Mistry is a writer of the Indian Diaspora. However, Mistry is also a Parsi Zoroastrian and as a person whose ancestors were forced into exile by the Islamic conquest of Iran,1 he was in Diaspora even in India. Like other Parsi writers,2 his writing is informed by this experience of double displacement .

28] Basantari, Vinita Dilip. Rohinton Mistry’s Tales From Firozsha Baag – An Expression of Parsi Ethos. Golden Research thought: Mar 2012 Vol. 1 Issue a special section P. 1.

Nila Shah in "Re-Narration of History in Such a Long Journey and A Fine Balance" writes that the writers from minority communities have: “not only tried to unearth and recreate kaleidoscopic images of the past but have employed their creative talents to explore the contemporary reality and concerns about their community." (Dodiya, 2004, p.63) A close study of Rohinton Mistry's fiction reveals that like other writers from minority communities, he too, presents a picture of his community in distinct ways. JOURNALS & MAGAZINES:

29) A Fine Balance in truth and fiction: exploring globalization’s impacts on community and implications for adult learning in Rohinton Mistry’s novel and related literature. DOI: 10.1080/026037042000317347

KAELA JUBAS pages 53-69 Published online: 11 Aug 20 Article Views: 92 30) International Journal of Lifelong Education Volume 24, Issue 1,( 2005)

Globalization continues to interest researchers and practitioners as it unfolds around us. This article contributes to the analysis of globalization’s discourse, objectives and outcomes, by exploring the impact of globalization on community and its implications for adult learning. Using selected themes from a work of fiction to frame this exploration, the article asserts that the study of fiction can bolster critical thinking and learning.

31) Volume. 30 No. 2, (2005) Keynes, Storytelling, and Realism: Literary and Economic Discourse in Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance Tyler Tokaryk

In opposition to logical positivism, John Maynard Keynes endorses "a language of vagueness" for economic development discourse that reflects a postmodern understanding of the limitations of language to reflect reality. Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance is a postmodern storytelling of India's economic development during the 1975- 77 Emergency; its realist framework communicates the further elaboration required by Keynes's vague language to achieve a more precise rendering of the material world. 32) Volume. 59 Issue 3, pages 204–217, June 2004 DOI: 10.1111/j.0105-7510.2004.00804.x Article first published online: 18 MAY 2004

On Re-Orientalizing the Indian Novel: A Case Study of Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance This study of Rohinton Mistry's recent novel A Fine Balance offers an interpretation of the novel's central themes of resistance and resignation in the light of an earlier Indian classic, Mulk Raj Anand's 1935 work Untouchable, and in particular concentrates on the Yeatsian influence present in the novel, beginning with its title. In contrast to Anand's work, where the British and the caste-system are revealed to be the key perpetrators of the protagonists’ sufferings, there is no single source of evil responsible for the myriad difficulties Mistry's characters suffers.

33) Constructions of home and nation in the literature of the Indian diaspora, with particular reference to selected works of Bharati Mukherjee, Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh and Rohinton Mistry.

Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia (1999) Constructions of home and nation in the literature of the Indian diaspora, with particular reference to selected works of Bharati Mukherjee, Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh and Rohinton Mistry. Ph.D thesis, University of Leeds.

This thesis is an attempt to grapple with the meaning of home and belonging, nation and identity, from the perspective of diaspora narratives. Recent theories of diaspora have produced profound epistemological shifts in the theoretical frameworks and modes of analysis informing intellectual and cultural production. It is within the context of these rearticulated notions of diaspora that I locate my own theoretical perspective in this thesis5] 34) Volume 45, Number 4, winter 1999 pp. 1050-1052 | 10.1353/mfs.1999.0099 Modern Fiction Studies 45.4 (1999) 1050-1052

Masculine Migrations: Reading the Postcolonial Male in "New Canadian" Narratives

Daniel Coleman. Masculine Migrations: Reading the Postcolonial Male in "New Canadian" Narratives. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1998. xvi + 201 pp.

In this illuminating and reflective study, Daniel Coleman explores a series of "Migration narratives" written by Austin Clarke, Dany Laferriére, Neil Bissoondath, Michael Ondaatje, Rohinton Mistry, and Ven Begamudré, whose work extends what Coleman aptly calls a "rich tradition in Canadian literature of immigrant writing?" Coleman is especially interested in the representation of masculine gender codes under stress and in transition as the male immigrant travels from a post-colonial location -- India, the Caribbean, Africa, and Sri Lanka -- to the Canadian metropolis.

35) Canadian Literature in English (review) University of Toronto Quarterly Volume 77, Number 1, winter 2008 pp. 181-185 | 10.1353/utq.0.0171

This two-volume revised edition of W.J. Keith's literary history, Canadian Literature in English, is an expanded version of his 1985 book by the same title, which provides a valuable historical survey and analysis of Canadian writing from the eighteenth century to the present, with chapters organized by period and genre. Its focus is the formation of a Canadian literary tradition, so the emphasis throughout is on linking authors within this trajectory7] 36) Rohinton Mistry and the Art of Storytelling. Beena Kamlani World Literature Today Vol. 87, No. 1 (January/February 2013), pp. 53-54 Published by: University of Oklahoma DOI: 10.7588/worllitetoda.87.1.0053

When she first encountered Rohinton Mistry's work, writes Beena Kamlani, “I had never met such people in fiction before. How was it possible that now that world, a world I had come to see as lost, or at least gone from me, was here now, mine to savor, to remember and to treasure?”