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Rohinton Mistry, an Indian-born Canadian writer is known for receiving the Booker Prize for his first novel Such a Long Journey. Though, Mistry moved to Canada his passion for India as well as his own experience as a Zoroastrian Parsee made him write this novel. Such a Long Journey is a socio-political novel that centers around the life of the Parsee community. Most of the contemporary Indian writers uses the themes like war, violence, displaced community, marginalization to crystallize the present socio or political conditions of India. This paper scrutinizes the experience, anguish, and the nostalgic feeling of the protagonist of the novel Gustad Noble of Parsee community who dredges several ways to keep his family out of poverty but he is moved to distress till the end of his life’s journey.