A Fine Balance Cecie Starr and the state manage ethnicity

and the state manage ethnicity and ethnic relations for viable multiethnic living

The stakes have never been higher - because this time

or social behavior crosses a threshold

she finds help in the most unlikely of places

A Fine Balance Cecie Starr and the state manage ethnicityWith a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency, in whose upheavals four strangers a spirited widow, a young student uprooted from his idyllic hill station, and two tailors who have fled the caste violence