has become ever more important in today’s super connected world. The twentieth century based film “The Mystic Masseur” by Ismail Merchant which is based on the novel The Mystic Masseur by V.S. Naipaul is a coming of age story that deals with the search for identity. The protagonist, Ganesh in Mystic Masseur is searching for who he is and faces unique obstacles in becoming himself. The Mystic Masseur by V.S. Naipaul, narrates the story of Ganesh, a Hindu man struggling to find his place in a society
highlighted many issues faced by Caribbean people. This ‘quarrel with history’ is centered on issues of race, social class structure, gender, culture and identity. Writers such as Sam Selvon in his novel ‘The Lonely Londoners’ and V.S. Naipaul in ‘The Mystic Masseur’, through their writing, have disempowered various factors that affects the colonized. The literary techniques used
From this story one is reminded of the scenes in The Guide by R.K.Narayan where the protagonist becomes popular mendicant by chance. It can also be alluded to stories of fake pundits in Naipaul’s early works like ‘The Mystic Masseur’, where Ganesh, the sincere school teacher, degenerates into a fake pundit whose lucky cure of a paranoiac enables him to practice sham politics. Willie’s father, a sincere follower of Gandhiji’s principles becomes a fake mendicant to protect himself from the threat of
illusion, fraud, corruption, degradation and idle. Despite these overwhelming concerns and repetitions, each of Naipaul’s novels has a different texture and shape. The loosely connected stories of Miguel Street, the mock-history of Ganesh in the Mystic Masseur, the satiric political drama in The Suffrage Of Elvira, the brooding and expansive A House For Mr. Bishwas, the bitter sweet memoir of Ralph Singh in The Mimic Men, and the violent world of Guerillas and A Bend in the River are manifestations