Rohinton Mistry's 1995 novel A Fine Balance is set in 1970s India and follows four characters who come to connect with one another over a time of around 15 years. There is Dina, the striving landowner whose spouse was run over and murdered while cycling to purchase frozen yogurt for a family assembling; Ishvar and Omprakash, tailors whose families had been mistreated by the dangerous tradition of the standing framework; and Maneck, a refrigeration and cooling understudy whose closest companion is tormented and slaughtered by the public authority.