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Cultural Ethos in Rohinton Mistry�s Such a Long Journey
A. Devabesli, M.Phil. English

Abstract
Such a Long Journey examines the life of a Parsi community and development of post-colonialism in India. It describes the life style of Parsi people. Mistry is exceptionally individualistic, but he also finds around him a huge web of Parsi Indians and his development as an entity is the result of conscious and unconscious reaction to the Parsi life around him.
Mistry belongs to the Parsi Zoroastrian religious minority. Mistry�s first novel, Such a Long Journey (1991), brought him national and international recognition. Mistry�s subsequent novels have achieved the same level of recognition as his first.
The Background Setting
Bombay is the setting of Mistry�s first novel, Such a Long Journey (1991). However, the social conditions that provided a distant backdrop to the short stories now bear upon a particular Bombay family. The protagonist, Gustad Noble, finds his life unraveling as his son rejects filial piety, his best friend involves him in political intrigue and his own rationality and morality confront a world in change. In Such a Long Journey, the clerk�s daughter�s illness and his son�s refusal to go to college, are events that we are encouraged to read symptomatically. When Gustad receives a parcel and a request to launder money for an old friend, the events ramifications are at once personal and political.
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A. Devabesli, M.Phil. English
Sri Adi Chunchanagiri Women�s College
Cumbum 625 516
Tamilnadu
India
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