![]() All of them are struggling to find their own voice and a listener. Tilottama or Tilo, who is married to a journalist from a diplomatic family, and others. This community of outsiders is populated by the prime mover of the story, Anjum, a Muslim trans woman, Saddam Hussain (Dayachand), a blind Dalit youngster, Saddam’s father, a Dalit cattle-skinner (family of chamars who collect cow carcasses]), Dr Azad Bhartiya, an academic-turned-activist, ‘dark-skinned’ S. Roy brings the outsiders of society to the centre. These stories stem from situations of grief, abandonment, anger, helplessness, and above all, a lack of agency and subjectivity. It is composed of a variety of unrelated, fractured narratives, unified by one character – Anjum. Roy’s storytelling does not follow a linear pattern. ![]() Written 20 years after The God of Small Things, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness opens a universe of the marginalised, voiceless, and the disenfranchised to its readers. ![]() Arundhati Roy’s novel The Ministry of Utmost Happiness begins in a graveyard – a place for the dead – where the protagonist lives. ![]()
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