Political and Family Uproar of Bombay on Young Parsi Life in Cyrus Mistry’s The Radiance of Ashes

Abstract

Cyrus Mistry is an Indian Parsi writer who was born in 1956. He started out as a poet, independent journalist, and short-story writer. At the young age of 21, he penned the drama Doongaji House in 1977, which has become a standard in Indian English theater. A Gujarati feature film was made from one of his short stories. Several awards have been given to his plays and scripts for movies. In 2014, His second work, the novel titled "The Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer" was awarded the prestigious DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, which came out in 2012. Mistry's first book, The Radiance of Ashes, came out in 2005. It is about a young Parsi guy named Jingo (Jahangir) Moos who lives in Bombay. Jingo works part-time as a market researcher and wants to be a writer. He likes to smoke pot and is interested in how people live on the streets of Bombay. After the Babri Masjid was torn down, riots broke out, and a radical Hindu group is attempting to restore peace in Bombay. This means, of course, that he doesn't have much of a plan for his life, which makes his parents, Boman and Khorshed, feel lost. His parents care about him, but they are very strict. The book goes back and forth between political drama and Jingo's own struggles. Jingo has a lot on his mind: Christina's accusations of jealousy, his own emotions of inadequacy and remorse, The protagonist is faced with the weight of his father's aspirations and the intense affection his mother has for a deceased son, who passed away before to his own birth. There is great fighting between his old Parsi parents and a steady music of angry talks with Christina. In the end, Mistry provides Jingo with the concrete evidence he sought, proving that his decisions were not a justification for inaction.