ThAct : The Ministry

 Hello readers...

This blog is in response of the novel "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness" by  Indian author, and Booker Prize winner, Arundhati Roy. It is a novel based on the liquidity of modernity that is the evolving tendency of people to adapt new identities to fit into rapidly changing social and political contexts.

Following are some important concern about the novel :

1.) political issues in the novel.

Following the 1947 partition of India and Pakistan, Arundhati Roy depicts the many ways in which diverse groups of the Indian populace have been let down and oppressed by their political leaders. She highlights corruption in all political groups involved, including the Indian army, Indian leftists who oppose the occupation of Kashmir, and Kashmiri locals and militants who appear to resist the military occupation, in particular through her depiction of the ongoing Kashmir conflict between these two countries.

2.) Gender concerns in the novel.

The first part of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is recounted from the perspective of Anjum, a transgender woman and former sex worker who was born intersex meaning she has both female and male genitalia. Readers are introduced to the myriad inequities and types of violence that plague the city in which Anjum lives via the eyes of Anjum. Anjum and the other trans women she lives with use the Urdu word Hijra to describe themselves. By delving into Anjum's gender identification and portraying her as a woman.

3.) Environmental concerns in the novel/ Ecofeminist study.

 Arundhati Roy has investigated how nature may be welcomed to modify the gendered concerns that have been developed to silence women and other non-human life, using an ecofeminist viewpoint. Roy has made numerous attempts to expose the heinous fact that nature and women are used as resources to meet men's wants. In today's world, it's really common. Both are oppressed and raped in their own ways, thus they must be treated equally. Women, according to ecofeminism, have the power to generate wealth.

4.) Narrative patterns in the novel.

The storey begins in the strange setting of a necropolis, illustrating the long litany of necropolitics created by India's compromised pseudo-democratic structure in the grip of political scandals. The novel begins with the storey of Anjum, a trans-woman, or more accurately, a woman trapped in a man's body, according to the novel's framework. The main stream of the storey builds up a dystopian society, providing the readers a catastrophic warning, whilst Roy develops a utopia, guided by Anjum, that is built up by the society's rejects. This is the way the storey unfolds.

Thank you...