https://anitamathias.com/2010/10/24/a-fine-balance-by-rohinton-mistry/ Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Mon, 25 Oct 2010 14:28:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://anitamathias.com/2010/10/24/a-fine-balance-by-rohinton-mistry/#comment-63887 Mon, 25 Oct 2010 14:28:21 +0000 https://anitamathias.com/2010/10/24/a-fine-balance-by-rohinton-mistry/#comment-63887 Hi Cassandra, Good point. I suppose I didn't realize how reading the book could help you see beggars, for instance, and realize that they had a back story, which brought them to this. It was good in "humanizing" the very poor. I did, however, find it unbearably painful.

]]> https://anitamathias.com/2010/10/24/a-fine-balance-by-rohinton-mistry/#comment-63888 Mon, 25 Oct 2010 08:22:06 +0000 https://anitamathias.com/2010/10/24/a-fine-balance-by-rohinton-mistry/#comment-63888 Personally I loved the book, even in its gloom.I think Mistry intended for it to be as heart wrenching as it was.
I studied the book in college and out of the 27 novels that were in the syllabus, this was one book that really stood out & we all really connected to and one that taught us so much about life in general. I wouldn't even be exaggerating if I said that it brought us as a class together. Studying the book was an emotional roller coaster. And it was strange how since reading it, we'd all see Oms, Ishvars and Shankars on a day to day basis.

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