These notes were collected in celebration of Rohinton Mistry's birthday: July 3, 1952. When Rohinton Mistry’s Family Matters was published in 2002, several reviewers compared the Indian-born writer to Tolstoy. The novel is set in the city of Mumbai , where Mistry was born and grew up, and tells the story of a middle-class Parsi family living through a domestic crisis. Through one family, Mistry conveys everything from the dilemmas among India's Parsis, Persian-descended Zoroastrians , to the wider concerns of corruption and communalism . Rohinton Mistry's Acceptance Speech—2012 Neustadt Festival - Meet the author and hear him sing too! Zoroastrian Rituals and Geh Saarnaa Prayer - providing peace and reassurance to the Soul. Experimentation of the Language in the Novels of Rohinton Mistry