Rohinton Mistry
Rohinton Mistry
Rohinton Mistry CMis an Indian-born Canadian. He was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2012...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth3 July 1952
CountryCanada
witty caring law
The Law is a grim, unsmiling thing. Not Justice, though. Justice is witty and whimsical and kind and caring.
carnage humans wounded
The carnage upon the chessboard of life, left wounded humans in its wake
men car occupation
Traffic in the streets of Bombay is chaotic at best. Riding a bicycle is a dangerous occupation. However, there are hundreds of them on the streets competing with the cars and buses and lorries because it is the poor man's mode of transport.
long together length
How can time be long or short? Time is without length or breadth. The question is, what happened during its passing. And what happened is, our lives have been joined together.
balance despair fine
You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.
loss essentials calamity
Loss is essential. Loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life.
perfect privacy concerts
There was no such thing as perfect privacy, life was a perpetual concert-hall recital with a captive audience.
fire firsts walks
Walk, first, through the fire, then philosophize...
real writing perception
All fiction relies on the real world in the sense that we all take in the world through our five senses and we accumulate details, consciously or subconsciously. This accumulation of detail can be drawn on when you write fiction.
country silly kind
In foreign countries they fear baldness. They are so rich in foreign countries, they can afford to fear all kinds of silly things.
school class voice
I met my wife when we were both 19 or 20, at a music school where she was taking voice and piano lessons and I was doing classes in music theory and composition.
memories two imagination
In the broad sense, as a processing of everything one hears or witnesses, all fiction is autobiographical - imagination ground through the mill of memory. It's impossible to separate the two ingredients.
white black brain
Black money is so much a part of our white economy, a tumour in the centre of the brain - try to remove it and you kill the patient.
thinking past age
I think a lot about the past, it's true. But at my age, the past is more present than the here and now. and there is not much percentage in the future.