Journey from Bombay to Cleveland: Multicultural Struggle in If Today Be Sweet

This Research paper presents the struggle of people whose life is trapped in Multicultural society, through the life of protagonist of the novel Tehmina Sethna, a Parsi widow from Bombay who travels to suburban Cleveland to live with her son Sorab and his American family. Thrity Umrigar born in 1961 at Bombay in Parsi community. As she born and brought up in Parsi community, it developed her awareness about cultural differences, cultural identity, traditions and problems of minority classes. She has worked as novelist, essayist and journalist. She explored themes like identity crisis, migration, nostalgia, hybridity, social inequality, women’s struggle and multiculturalism from her writings. Umrigar highlights multiculturalism through the cultural interactions, memories of Bombay and lifestyle in Ohio, America. In the novel If Today Be Sweet Umrigar highlights multiculturalism as a harmonious coexistence as well as uneven process of negotiation.