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![]() The peculiar title, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness having multiple connotations is not a surprise as this is one can expect from the magnificent Arundhati Roy summing up all the stories, she came across, in some fifty characters giving each its due share. ![]() Reformative in spirit and revolutionary in text is the style Roy has adopted. Twelve chapters having unusual titles with one-liner quotes in between make it a noteworthy amalgamation of literature, history, culture, art and politics with layers of organisation and dimensions in it making it a satirical composition of gloomy massacres, sheer violation of humanity, brief interludes, unconditional love and simplicity. The magic of that “something else” leave the reader spellbound at every corner of this labyrinth. ![]() A way of binding together worlds that have been ripped apart”. ![]() By language I don’t mean English, Urdu, Malayalam or Hindi. ![]() Prior to the writing Roy stated in 2011 in an interview that “I’ll have to find a language to tell the story I want to tell. The Booker Prize winning author of The God of Small Things after a gap of almost 20 years has written a masterpiece in its own way paying heed to all the unheard, giving voice to all the voiceless a social and a political thriller. ![]()
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