Mimic writing: On Rammowalia’s fictional narrative of Air India Plane tragedy.

This paper presents a reading of Iqbal Rammowalia’s novelWhat the Judges Wouldn’t See?[2005]. It is a fictional narrative of post-1984 events in a Canadian Sikh household, which, readers are invited to believe, bears closely upon the crashing of Air India plane in June 1985. The plot devised by Rammowalia turns out to be a caricature of gross distortion. Its tall claim of portraying a realistic scenario of a conspiracy is unconvincing – knowing Canada’s two national security agencies could not substantiate such a contention. As it stands, Rammowalia’s creative work only lends its weight to a shelf-load of prejudiced writings concerning the Canadian Sikhs. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]