The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati RoyMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
I thought this would be another one of my unfinished novels. Got stuck in middle parts of this book because some are not as interesting as the beginning. Glad I continued and reach the ending :).
This is a story of many--Anjum, Sadam, Zainab, Tilo, Naga, Musa, and others-- intertwined by the story of Miss Jebeen the 2nd. Sometimes it is hard for me to know which story is which. Here, they represented "the unconsoled", the marginalized, those who've rejected by society and how they find happiness in Duniya.
...think about it, what are the things you normal people get unhappy about? I don’t mean you, but grown-ups like you – what makes them unhappy? Price-rise, children’s school-admissions, husbands’ beatings, wives’ cheatings, Hindu–Muslim riots, Indo–Pak war – outside things that settle down eventually. But for us the price-rise and school-admissions and beating-husbands and cheating-wives are all inside us. The riot is inside us. The war is inside us. Indo–Pak is inside us. It will never settle down. It can’t.’
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