Against the backdrop of a novel that marvelously chronicles the litter of socio-political, administrative, linguistic and cultural pathologies through which a nation toddled and dawdled its tortuous way from decolonization to the threshold of globalization, the preset paper seeks to interrogate whether the phenomenon of decolonization has been accomplished to any appreciable extent at various levels of human life lived in multi-lingual and multi-cultural India. The legacy of invidious colonial apparatus comprising the magnanimous discourse of development, politics of representation, cryptic forms of otherization, politics of language and education etc. has become a powerful tool in the hands of home-grown neo-imperialist, exploitative establishment due to which the nightmare of colonial woes and wretchedness has continued for the marginalized long after the nation awoke to life and freedom. In this paper, an effort has been made to pinpoint the locations where colonial binaries are highlighted or subverted in the novel. The paper also addresses the dire need to adapt individual, social and cultural identities to historical realities and internalize and celebrate the phenomenon of hybridity which can foreclose the colonial binarism, facilitate anti- monolithic cultural exchange and liberate and empower the colonial subject. Finally the paper seeks to examine the roles of individual, society and political establishment in effecting the unfinished revolution of cultural reorientation