• Manohar Kumar Pathak

Cyrus Mistry (b.1956, Bombay) is an Indian playwright and novelist from a Parsi family. Cyrus Mistry started his career as a playwright at a young age and also worked as a journalist. Mistry also wrote short film scripts and several documentaries. His contribution as an ethnocentric writer can be well understood in his novels like Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer and The Radiance of Ashes. His ethnocentricity lies in a variety of themes like untouchability, identity crisis, dislocation, marginalization and several others. Untouchability or discrimination is not something new to Indian culture, India has a long legacy of this maybe roots tracing back to ancient times when the varna system was practiced. But with the advent of western civilization and purging of the dogmas we can say that we have travelled well enough. In the present chapter which takes into consideration the plight of Khandias, Mistry has tried to highlight the invisibility of these people; it is these people who carry the corpses to The Tower of Silence, the last rituals that the Parsis perform. Zoroastrianism was practiced in Iran much before the beginnings of Islam, what we see today in India the immigrants as Parsis. The Parsees have a cocooned ritual system and the most strange is their burial rites. Mistry’s novel Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer was a kind of spark.

"IDENTITY CRISIS AND ETHNOCENTRIC ELEMENTS IN CYRUS MISTRY’S NOVELS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 11, page no.1180-1189, November-2020, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2011298.pdf

"IDENTITY CRISIS AND ETHNOCENTRIC ELEMENTS IN CYRUS MISTRY’S NOVELS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 11, page no. pp1180-1189, November-2020, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2011298.pdf