This novel is about the marginalized people in modern India--people living on the periphery--the transgenders, Dalits (untouchables), Muslims, Kashmiris, people ...

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is the second novel by Indian writer Arundhati Roy, published in 2017, twenty years after her debut, The God of Small ...

Jun 1, 2017 · The Ministry of Utmost Happiness takes us on a journey of many years – the story spooling outwards from the cramped neighbourhoods of Old ...

Aug 15, 2017 · Arundhati Roy had a strange and frightening dream. She was a fish being ripped from the water by a bony emerald hand. A voice instructed her to make a wish.

Dec 23, 2019 · It starts as an anti-corruption protest by a Gandhian who has gone on hunger strike to speak out against corruption in India. However, soon many ...

Jun 11, 2017 · The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is a novel of maddeningly frayed edges, wonky pacing and occasional longueurs. But its patchwork of narratives, painful, funny ...

May 29, 2017 · By contrast, “The Ministry of the Utmost Happiness” is about India, the polity, during the past half century or so, and its griefs are national.

The novel's spatial focus on margins and backdrops impels us to look backward at populations and nonhuman entities struggling for footholds in the future.

Jul 29, 2017 · The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is a story told in two parts and three voices, with two sets of characters that come together in a quick finale ...

Nov 9, 2018 · The Ministry of Utmost Happiness mirrors India's clashing confusion of tradition and progress, Hindu and Muslim, wealth and poverty.