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'The Ministry of Utmost Happiness Imagery'. Next Section Literary Elements Previous Section Irony How To Cite in MLA Format Thukral, Ruchika. Will review the submission and either publish your submission or provide feedback. You can help us out by revising, improving and updatingĪfter you claim a section you’ll have 24 hours to send in a draft. Thus, her clothes become a mirror for her moods. She begins to dress up plainly after she starts living in the graveyard having no use to dress up for attention. She begins to dress up as a man in a bid for anonymity after she is deeply traumatized in her experience of Gujrat riots. She dressed in sequined ghagras and shiny dupattas, she dresses up in a red sari as is symbolic of a newly wedded bride on the day she is initiated in the Khwaabgah. Anjum’s clothesĪnjum had a way of dressing up as her moods went. One follows Anjum, a hijra, or transwoman, struggling to make a life for herself in Delhi. No plans, no missions could be carried out, all sorts of things began to float in the flood water, from both sides creating a picture where nature was lashing out its fury on humans who were waging war on it. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, hulking, sprawling story that it is, has two main strands. She eventually became a very successful Hijra herself thanks to her striking looks, outspoken demeanor. Originally named Aftab, Anjum is an intersex Muslim woman whose parents, Jahanara Begum and Mulaqat Ali, raised her as a boy. The floods of Kashmir are described as an event which unified the terrorists and the army alike. Anjum is the first character Roy introduces, and she remains a central figure in the novel even as its scope expands. She is said to be an old woman who now had to look whorish to satisfy her masters who were pimping her to a new client. The city of Delhi is described as Medusa, where grey flyovers became the snakes crawling out of her skull, every wrinkle is compared to a street and lane, homeless people squirmed around as lice. This is a portrayal of his fear of being found a hijra by violent rioters, who would terrorize her to extort blessings. She also tries to dress Zainab as a boy, as a Hindu boy. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own.Īnjum, who as Aftab had fallen in love with the style and clothes that hijras wore, started to dress up as a man. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community.

The ministry of utmost happiness sparknotes