1. Seeking and Maintaining Balance
... the personal misfortunes unravel against another watershed in modern Indian history: Mrs. Gandhi's State of Emergency, which suspended civil liberties in 1975. One critic called the novel India's version of Les Miserables, which seems apt enough. The first of the four doomed characters to appear is Dina, a Parsi woman who had been brought up by a domineering older brother after her father's death ... ...
- Word Count: 4673
- Approx Pages: 19
- Grade Level: Undergraduate
