A mistri is a craftsman, and it was no surprise when Rohinton Mistry was last year awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. In an essay titled Rohinton Mistry’s Omniscient Gaze in this issue of World Literature Today, Samrat Upadhyay pays tribute to the Indian-Canadian writer, commending him in particular for his ability to, in the words of 1988 Neustadt winner Raja Rao, “convey in a language that is not one’s own the spirit that is one’s own.”