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@article{172611,
        author = {ANNA MERIN SCARIA},
        title = {The Horrors of Emergency as Depicted in Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance.},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {11},
        number = {9},
        pages = {242-244},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=172611},
        abstract = {Indian English literature has emerged as a result of British invasion in India and among its various genres fiction plays a major role as it expresses the consciousness of life and society in its true sense. The last three decades has witnessed an unprecedented output in fiction in India. The new fiction category stands unmatched by any other period in the growth and development in Indian English novel as it gives a realistic picture of contemporary India. Rohinton Mistry, Indian Diasporic writer, tries to depict some of the major political and social issues that were prevalent in Indian history. This paper focuses on Mistry’s second novel A Fine Balance and aims to study the impact of Emergency period in India as depicted in the novel.},
        keywords = {Indian English fiction, Indian Diaspora, State of Emergency},
        month = {January},
        }