The Mumbai-born Canadian novelist Rohinton Mistry received the Lifetime Achievement award at the Times Litfest last December. It was his first public appearance in his original hometown, indeed India, since the Shiv Sena’s removal of `Such a Long Journey’ from the Mumbai University’s reading list in 2010. He spoke to Bachi Karkaria on the ban, his muse and his threatened community …..

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