Narrating History in Rohinton Mistry’s Such a Long Journey

Abstract

The Post Colonial intelligence thinks that their history has been distorted and warped by the Western writers with a definite purpose to belittle the achievements of those whom they have conquered. As such, they are against the act of their histories being written by the colonizers. Rohinton Mistry is one such Post Colonial writer. His Such A Long Journey depicts the blows of fate that strike India as tragic calamities and catastrophes in the form of Emergency. The Post Colonial account of the historical facts is presented by this Parsi writer with the social, historical and political events very sincerely. He has emerged as a prominent Parsi political novelist owing to his impressive depiction of history and politics in his novels.