![]() ![]() ![]() This article analyzes the theme of subaltern suffering in A Fine Balance. They find themselves thrown together in the same humble city apartment: Dinabhai, a widow who refuses to remarry and fights to earn a meager living as a seamstress two tailors, Ishvar and Omprakash, uncle and nephew, who have come to the city in the hope of finding work and a student, Maneck Kohlah, from a village situated at the foothills of the Himalayas. A Fine Balance revolves around the lives of four protagonists each very different from the next. His novel A Fine Balance (1995) is set in an unnamed city that the reader can easily guess as Bombay, the author's native city. In his novels, Mistry has expressed the pain and grief of immigrant writers who were born in India but staying away from their motherland. He is an author who is writing about the India which he has seen and observed during his youth. He has confessed in various interviews that he migrated because it was the fashion of the times. He migrated to Canada in his early twenties as he wanted to become a Pop singer. Rohinton Mistry is a prominent writer to emerge from the Parsi community in India. ![]()
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