“You see, we cannot draw lines and compartments and refuse to budge beyond them. Sometimes you have to use your failures as stepping-stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.' He paused, considering what he had just said. 'Yes', he repeated. 'In the end, it'...
This was my first introduction to an author who made it to the elite club of NRI writers in the 80s--- all of whom made a definite impression in the world of literature and gave Indian Writing In English the prestige it enjoys today.Rohinton Mistry is primarily known for two of his works, Such a ...
The mystery of Mistry: why does one of the most acclaimed literary novelists of the Anglophone world seem to have stopped writing? His last novel, Family Matters, was published in 2002 and since that time he seems only to have published a novella, The Scream, in 2008. Mistry was never hyper-proli...
He clutched his undone pyjama drawstring, an extreme rage distorting his yet unshaven features. He could barely keep the yellow-stained pyjamas from falling. “Mehroo! Arré Mehroo! Where are you?” he screamed. “I am telling you, this is more than I can take! Today, of all days, on Behram roje. Meh...
How sweet a simple do re mi can sound, thought Roxana on the third floor, humming along with the violin.The octave was completed, and she called out from the kitchen, “Get ready, Jehangir, the water’s hot!”The violin pursued the major scale into the next key. He ignored his mother, absorbed by th...