World Peace through Multicultural Path in Stephen Gill’s The Coexistence

India born Canadian author Stephen Gill discusses the possibility of adopting multiculturalism as the principle on which world peace can rest in his novel The Coexistence. Raghu Nath, the hero and the spokesperson of the author, freely expresses his dissatisfaction with wars, genocides, prejudices, xenophobia, racism and discrimination. He seems to be actively involved in the debate of world peace and suggests the idea of live and let live, symbiosis, and multiculturalism as possible ways for the attainment of world peace. Gill seems to reject the Darwinian principle of struggle for existence and suggests that nature offers examples of symbiotic relationship. He is hopeful that world peace will be achieved when there will be a world parliament and national prejudices will be won over. He sincerely believes in the idea of emergence of a World-state. In fact the novel The Coexistence appears to be the summary of the emerging socio-political discourse in the developed world.