The central group of this novel includes Ishvar, (*) Omprakash, and Maneck, who work with Dinah Dalal as tailors against the backdrop of Indira Gandhi's Emergency.
This novel ends as one character realizes he never returned a chess set given to him by a student body president at his university. That character is sent to study refrigeration and air conditioning by his father, the producer of the struggling soda brand Kholah Cola. In this novel, a character known as the "Monkey-man" slays a dog before fulfilling an old lady's prediction by killing the Beggarmaster. Another character in this novel is forced by the death of her chemist husband to move in with her domineering brother Nusswan. One of its characters spits at Thakur Dharamsi, causing him to become a target of the Family Planning Centre and its forced vasectomies. The central group of this novel includes Ishvar, (*) Omprakash, and Maneck, who work with Dinah Dalal as tailors against the backdrop of Indira Gandhi's Emergency. For 10 points, name this most popular novel of Rohinton Mistry.
This novel ends as one character realizes he never returned a chess set given to him by a student body president at his university.
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