Rohinton Mistry returns to his home turf in all his major works: Such a Long Journey (1991), A Fine Balance (1995), and Family Matters (2002). All his novels are sited in India during moments of intense political crisis. The overwhelming importance of these national problems notwithstanding, Mistry succeeds in representing the minutiae of Parsi life and culture. The Parsi community of Bombay demarcated by the Zoroastrian faith forms the fulcrum on which these novels gyrate. However, the extent to which Parsi life is foregrounded fluctuates from novel to novel. While Such a Long Journey undertakes to vindicate the Parsi, Rustom Suhrab Nagarwala and simultaneously present Parsi customs and conventions; in A Fine Balance there appears to be a relative lull in Mistry's concern with the Parsi people while Family Matters takes up the cause of the clan with renewed gusto. Mistry draws a connection between the Parsi world and the larger tapestry of the nation but as we move from his first novel to the third we see it getting more and more tenuous. It would appear as if the Parsi turf is just too rich to be ignored by Mistry's creative imagination and the novels may be read as a record of Parsi culture in view of the rapidly diminishing population. Rohinton Mistry migrated to Canada in 1975 at the young age of twenty- five. Nevertheless he returns to his home turf in all his major works. His three novels: Such a Long Journey (1991), A Fine Balance (1995), and Family Matters (2002) are all sited in India during moments of intense political crisis the ramifications of which send strong tremors through his fictional world. The events in Such a Long Journey are backgrounded against the Bangladesh Liberation war of 1971, A Fine Balance against the Internal Emergency of 1975-77 and the domestic drama in Family Matters is set against the Shiv Sena menace and the communal riots of the 1990's. The overwhelming importance of these national problems notwithstanding, Mistry succeeds in representing the minutiae of Parsi life and culture. In fact, the Parsi community of Bombay demarcated by the Zoroastrian faith forms the fulcrum on which these novels gyrate. However, the extent to which Parsi life is foregrounded fluctuates from novel to novel. While Such a Long Journey undertakes to vindicate the Parsi, Rustom Suhrab Nagarwala and simultaneously present Parsi customs and conventions; in A Fine Balance there appears to be a relative lull in Mistry's concern with the Parsi people while Family Matters takes up the cause of the clan with renewed gusto. In his novels Mistry embodies Bombay from the Parsi margins. The 58 Table of Contents choice of Bombay as the locale for all his novels is not fortuitous but deliberate because more than seventy percent of all Parsis today live in Bombay <http://huizen.daxis.nl/~henkt/zoroastrianism-belief.html>. Mistry himself had grown up in Parsi Baag in Bombay and it materializes as Khodadad Building in Such a Long Journey and Pleasant Villa and Chateau Felicity in Family Matters. In fact Mistry's first collection of stories is entitled Tales from Firozshaa Baag and it demonstrates how the Baag unifies the lives of all its Parsi inhabitants. Baag is a Gujarati word meaning “garden” but it is frequently used to refer to the complex of buildings which house Parsis and which are also known as “colonies” (Luhrmann 250). The Parsi Baag is a distinctive feature of the Bombay cityscape, an apartment complex usually with a community courtyard that signals the cultural and religious affiliations of its inhabitants. That the city of Bombay, is of utmost significance to the Parsis can be construed from Inspector Masalawala's lament in Family Matters “To think that we Parsis were the one who built this beautiful city and made it prosper. And in a few more years, there won't be any of us left alive to tell the tale” (416). Hence, by opting for Bombay as his locale, Mistry is only presenting the Parsis in their natural habitat.