A Fine Balance: Characters

4 Characters Dina, Ishvar, Om, Maneck. Ishvar is Oms nephew. Dina is widowed. Maneck college student. Dina Shroff, who was raised by her strict chum after her bring forth died she meets Rustom Dalal. The pas de deux fall in love and marry, but on their third wed anniversary Rustom is killed in a bicycle accident, leaving Dina alone. Rustoms auntie teaches Dina to sew her eyesight begins to fail, so she is forced to find another mood to make money Her friend Zenobia introduces her to Mrs Gupta, who offers her some tailoring piece piddle She hires Ishvar Darji and his nephew Omprakash, originally from a small village, to do the work.Ishvars father treasured a better life for his sons and so sent them to a neighbouring town to learn to be tailors They became the apprentices of Muslim tailor Ashraf Ishvar was seventeen, racial hatred of Muslims reached stewing point and any domiciles or shops belonging to Muslims were burnt to the ground Ishvar and his brother Narayan saved Ashra fs shop by claiming it belonged to them, leaving Ashraf forever in their debt. Narayan returned to the village and set up a successful tailor contrast for lower caste people He married and had a son.His line of business was very successful and it gave him enough money to build a straitlaced house All was going well until Narayan discovered that the elections were being frozen by Thakur Dharamsi, a powerful land owner Narayan confronted Thakur, who had him tortured non satisfied with just killing Narayan, Thakur decided to punish his whole family. Narayans wife, daughters and parents were tied up and burnt alive in their home. Omprakesh and Ishvar were the only ones to pass they continued working in their tailor shop, but were forced forbidden of business when a ready-made clothing shop opened in the town.Maneck. He grew up in a mountain village, where his father was the rarified owner of the local village store and inventor of a commonplace drink, Kohlah Cola Maneck was sen t to college and became good friends with the student president, Avinash Avinash led an uprising against the conditions and became complex in politics When the Emergency was declared, Avinash had to go into hiding, leaving Maneck alone His gravel then arranged for him to move in with Dina Dalal The four are sooner happy for almost a year, but then the Emergency starts to concern their lives.The tailors shack is demolished in a governing beautification program, forcing them to live on the streets After two months they bribe their way push through and persuade Dina to let them move in with her. Ishvar decides it is time for Om to find a wife, so they return to Ashrafs town There they bump into Thakur, who recognises the pair Ashraf is vanquish to death and Ishvar and Om are given compulsory vasectomies Thakur visits them as they are acquire from the operation and arranges on a medical pretext to have Oms testicles removed.Ishvars legs become infected and have to be amputated. M aneck finishes his college course and returns home His fathers business is failing due to cheap imports of commercial soda, and Maneck decides to leave, victorious a job in the Middle East. Dina finds herself all alone. A Beggarmaster who had been defend her from her landlords bailiffs is murdered, leaving her vulnerable she reluctantly returns to live with her brother. Eight years later, Maneck returns home for his fathers funeral.Maneck reads some old newspapers and discovers that Avinash was found dead by the side of a railway track and Avinashs three teen sisters hanged themselves because their parents could not afford their wedding dowries. Maneck decides to visit Dina She explains that Ishvar lost his legs and that the tailors are straight beggars Maneck leaves Dinas house, pretending not to recognize the tailors in the street, and heads for the railway locate where he steps in front of a train.