Diasporic Consciousness in Rohinton Mistry’s Fine Balance

The paper takes a critical view of Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance from the diasporic lens.The Fine Balance gives a detailed account of the suffering of immigrants on a foreign land. Diaspora Literature mainly concentrates on rootlessness, displacement, loss of identity. The issues are mainly generated by the experiences of migration . The paper dwells on the ramifications of political ‘Emergency’ The thrust of this paper – “Rohinton Mistry as a Diasporic Writer ”is chiefly explorative. What the thesis has done uptil now is to study Rohinton Mistry’s fiction with the purpose of discovering the quality and aspects of diasporic literature. Rohinton Mistry’s fiction is an evidence of a diasporic writer to the social, economic and political maladies of the diasporic India.