Words create worlds

Words create worlds 



Having finished A Fine Balance by the fantastic Rohinton Mistry - there's still one other book by him that I have to read...at the very least, something with Family in the title- I have to think how happy I must be to have a different life than the characters in the book.

I have written a note on it, without spoilers.
But there would be spoilers here, since this is just the continuation of that scribbling and I can lament here the fate of the heroes and the heroine.

I mean poor Dina has to return to her awful brother and be his servant basically. 

Ishvar is crippled, with legs cut off and forced to move on a small, wooden platform, mostly pulled by his nephew.
Whereas Om had protested he would not marry this early, he finishes the game as an eunuch, castrated at the Family Planning outfit.

Nonetheless, these three keep together, as much as it is possible.
Magnanimous Dina makes food for them every day and they eat at one, except for weekend days, when her brother is at home.

He must not know about it, for he would be horrified.
This bond is divine.

They even laugh and scold each other daily.
Alas, Maneck throws himself in front of the fast train!

Why on earth does he do that?
He just returned after eight years in Dubai, the shop waits for him, he has put money aside.

Nevertheless, the collected pain of his friends, his dear Dina has such an impact on him that he cannot take it anymore.