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THE MINISTRY OF UTMOST HAPPINESS
Book • 2017
The novel weaves together the lives of outcasts and activists, including Anjum, a transgender woman who establishes a sanctuary in a Delhi graveyard, and Tilo, an architect entangled in Kashmir's independence movement.
Through intersecting stories, Roy examines themes of identity, resistance, and systemic oppression across India's diverse social landscape.
Through intersecting stories, Roy examines themes of identity, resistance, and systemic oppression across India's diverse social landscape.
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as a book in which the germinating images are children born into resistance and chaos.

Sam Fragoso

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And In Our Hour of Darkness, Writer Arundhati Roy
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as a book where she wanted to capture the essence of the city through writing.


Arundhati Roy

Arundhati Roy on Storytelling, Memory and The Human Condition (Part Two)
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when she refers to the characters in her second novel.


Arundhati Roy

Arundhati Roy on Storytelling, Memory and The Human Condition (Part One)
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while discussing the impact of vulture population decline on India.

Anant Sudarshan

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