A Fine Balance: Characters

4 Characters Dina, Ishvar, Om, Maneck. Ishvar is Oms nephew. Dina is widowed. Maneck college student. Dina Shroff, who was elevated by her strict brother aft(prenominal) her yield died she meets Rustom Dalal. The couple fall in love and marry, but on their terzetto wedding 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 compel to find a nonher way to guard money Her friend Zenobia introduces her to Mrs Gupta, who offers her some accommodate piece work She hires Ishvar Darji and his nephew Omprakash, originally from a small village, to do the work.Ishvars father wanted a better lifespan for his sons and so displace them to a neighbouring township to learn to be customises They became the apprentices of Muslim tailor Ashraf Ishvar was seventeen, racial hatred of Muslims reached boiling organise and any foots or shops belonging to Muslims were burnt- turn up to the ground Ishv ar and his brother Narayan saved Ashrafs shop by claiming it belonged to them, leaving Ashraf forever and a day in their debt. Narayan returned to the village and set up a successful tailor avocation for lower caste people He married and had a son.His business was very(prenominal) successful and it gave him enough money to form a proper house exclusively was going well until Narayan discovered that the elections were being fixed by Thakur Dharamsi, a tidy land proprietor Narayan con front maned Thakur, who had him tortured non satisfied with just killing Narayan, Thakur unconquerable to punish his whole family. Narayans wife, daughters and p arnts were tie up and burnt alive in their home. Omprakesh and Ishvar were the only ones to escape they continued working in their tailor shop, but were labored out of business when a off-the-peg clothing shop opened in the town.Maneck. He grew up in a mountain village, where his father was the proud owner of the local village store and journeyman of a popular drink, Kohlah Cola Maneck was sent to college and became good friends with the student pre boldnessnt, Avinash Avinash led an grow against the conditions and became involved in politics When the touch was decl ard, Avinash had to go into hiding, leaving Maneck alone His get under ones skin whence arranged for him to move in with Dina Dalal The four be quite knowing for almost a year, but then the Emergency starts to impact their lives.The tailors shack is demolished in a government beautification program, forcing them to live on the streets aft(prenominal) two months they bribe their way out 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 puff into Thakur, who recognises the pair Ashraf is beaten to death and Ishvar and Om are given compulsory vasectomies Thakur visits them as they are recovering from the operation and arranges on a medical pretext to have Oms testicles removed.Ishvars legs become infected and have to be amputated. Maneck finishes his college course and returns home His fathers business is failing due to rubbishy imports of commercial soda, and Maneck decides to leave, taking a caper in the Middle East. Dina finds herself all alone. A Beggarmaster who had been protecting 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 honest-to-goodness newspapers and discovers that Avinash was found dead by the side of a railway track and Avinashs three teenage sisters hanged themselves because their parents could not devote their wedding dowries. Maneck decides to visit Dina She explains that Ishvar lost his legs and that the tailors are now beggars Maneck leaves Dinas house, pretending not to recognize the tailors in the street, and heads for the railway set where he steps in f ront of a train.