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The Mystic Masseur is one of the V.S. Naipaul�s finest comic creations wherein, we see huge sensibility, humour, success, politics and endless creative imagination that have become the hallmarks of the author�s genius. The story of the novel is not only the life history of Ganesh Ramsumair; rather it is a story of social and economic life of the Indian islanders. The author shows his alienation and rootlessness of the people migrated from India to Trinidad. Here he puts stress on the importance of imagination for survival. The question is whether the novel The Mystic Masseur depicts the real Trinidad, the question is answered in King�s observations in his book. �Those familiar with Trinidadian history should recognize how Naipaul has used local events, characters and such politician characters and politicians such as Uriah Butler, Albert Gomes, Arthur Cipriani and Naipaul�s two uncles, Rudranath and Simbhoonath Capildeo in the novel. The paper proposes to examine how V.S. Naipaul uses the post-colonial myth and reality in his novel The Mystic Masseur.