Literature exposes new realities about ourselves, disabilities, and different conceivable outcomes of how to arrange the world around us. Disabled people survive on the margins of society due to inequality, discrimination and oppression. They are always treated in different way in the society. They suffer from social exclusion as they do not fit into the social norms of what it represents to be able-bodied. Disability is now considered as one of the marginalizing factors besides Race, Class, and Gender. According to scholars in the field of Disability Studies, disability is everywhere, be it literature or life. So, discrimination and marginalization of the disabled is evident in both the places. Societal attitudes towards persons with disability have changed from time to time. Various factors contribute to these changing attitudes. Gender, education, religion, occupation, income, nationality have a significant impact on the level of disability consciousness.Firdaus Kanga’s novel, trying to Grow, tells the story of Brit Kotwal, a young Parsi boy with ontogenesis imperfect, negotiating his life in the Bombay of the 1970s. From the beginning, this semi-autobiographical work draws our attention to the common religious and medical perceptions of disability in Indian society. This paper proposes to study how the novel focuses on several aspects of the lived reality of a person with “brittle bones” who does not grow more than four feet tall. Brit presents the reader with this modern, emancipatory rhetoric of disability because of the privileges of his gender and class status in the Indian context.