A Fine BalanceIn mid 1970s urban Indiaa chaos of wretchedness on the streets and slogans in the officesa chain of circumstances tosses four varied individuals together in one small flat. Stubbornly independent Dina, widowed early, takes in Maneck, the college aged son of a more prosperous childhood friend and, more reluctantly, Ishvar and Om, uncle and nephew tailors fleeing low caste origins and astonishing hardships. The reader first learns the characters'