Negotiating the Glocal Intermediative Spaces in Rohinton Mistry’s “Such A Long Journey”

In this paper an attempt has been made to negotiate the glocal intermediative spaces in Mistry's 'Such a Long Journey' (SLJ) by delineating the diasporic discourse in the course of the novel. Rohinton Mistry is an Indo Canadian novelist who was born in Mumbai but at present he is residing in Canada. As he belongs to the Parsi Community, his ancestors originally belonged to Iran who migrated from Iran to India at that time. This is the reason why Mistry feels a double sense of migration, as his ancestors migrated to India and he migrated from India to Canada. This took the form of diasporic one concept or in the other words identity crisis in his novels like Such A Long Journey. Such a Long Journey is squarely diasporic discourse in which Mistry has openly tried to deconstruct and to repossess his Indian past. In this novel, the Parsi world interacts at the highest level with the post-colonial Indian world. Rohinton Mistry is a master storyteller who sketches India in all his novels. In 'Such A Long Journey' he presents a picture of various characters with an impression of Indianness in their mindset, behaviour and psychology. All the characters are being influenced by some or the other factor may it be their surroundings of social arena, their family background or educational background. His works seek to evolve a vision that involves both the community centred existence of the Parsis and their involvement with the wider national framework. His novels are concerned with the experience of the Parsis in India. In Mistry's novels, we can easily find interconnectedness of various themes like themes of nationalism, alienation, opression and human relationship. The aim of this paper is to carve out Mistry's vision of multicultural society and place of minorities in it.