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1. 1. A Fine Balance

   

   Set during the Emergency-era 1970s in India, the novel follows four strangers—an idealistic young student from the hills, a pragmatic widowed seamstress, and two low-caste tailors—who share a cramped city flat and form fragile bonds while struggling to survive. Against a backdrop of grinding poverty, caste discrimination, bureaucratic corruption and sudden political violence, their everyday efforts to preserve dignity and human connection reveal both small acts of kindness and the harsh costs exacted by social injustice and state power.