Open AccessThe State of daymares and insomnias- Exploring the trepidation and Viciousness of Emergency in Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance
Author(s) -
Dr R Latha Devi,
Dr S Prabahar
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
ymer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.103
H-Index - 5
ISSN - 0044-0477
DOI - 10.37896/ymer21.02/68
Subject(s) - cruelty , balance (ability) , narrative , stern , ruler , period (music) , sociology , happening , politics , media studies , history , law , political science , criminology , aesthetics , literature , psychology , art , art history , performance art , ancient history , physics , quantum mechanics , neuroscience
This paper intends to portray the problems that the ordinary people encountered during Internal Emergency that is represented in Rohinton Mistry‘s novel A Fine Balance. The Internal Emergency proclaimed during the regime of Indira Gandhi, the then Prime Minister of India forms the backdrop for Mistry’s novel A Fine Balance.. A Fine Balance, traces the social, political and historical development of India between the year of 1975 and 1985 and it portrays the horror and cruelty that was experienced by the people during the period. It entwines the story of four people who directly or indirectly become the victims of the Emergency. The novel draws the ruler in an unfavourable light and it abounds with the narration of many unhappy things. Detention of students, Evacuating slums, Forced vasectomy, Police brutality, Retaliatory murders were some of the cruel measures adopted during Emergency. The impact of these draconian measures is focused in A Fine Balance. Mistry proves himself a realist by representing what really was happening around