A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
A story that starts in India of the mid 1970s and goes on till about the mid 1980s. The various heart breaking, mind boggling incidents makes me glad to have come to existence much much later. When the world was a little calmer, a little more mature on achieving Independence. Did it? “If there was an abundance of misery in the world, there was also sufficient joy, yes - as long as one knew where to look for it.” I am not sure what Rohinton Mistry was thinking or going through to have written such a sad story. Every time I thought that the sadness bearing clouds were moving away to bring in some light, I was miserably reminded that this storm was here to stay. I just kept reeling under the pressure of the extreme unfairness that the characters in the story had to go through. “What sense did the world make? Where was God, the Bloody Fool? Did He have no notion of fair and unfair? Couldn't He read a simple balance sheet? He would have been sacked long ago if He were managing a corpora...