Respond to Rohinton Mistry's "The Collection"

Mistry is one of the most significant current authors of South Asian descent. He lives in Canada, and his best-known novel is A Fine Balance, about the Indira Ghandi era. When responding to this short story - and to all the short stories we'll read, I'd like you to look for anything that seems charateristic of South Asian Diasporic writing. This can be style, character-types, subject matter, use of language, tone... anything. Focus your posts about the story on a distinct way it seems to fit in its genre as South Asian literature.