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Arundhati Roy's second novel is a powerful elegy for a bulldozed world

Nilanjana S Roy reviews The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost HappinessArundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
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Nilanjana S Roy
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
Author: Arundhati Roy
Publisher: Penguin Random House
No. of pages: 464 pages
Price: Rs 599
 
In the same week that I began reading Arundhati Roy’s second novel, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, I came across an old interview between Gabriel Garcia Marquez and The Paris Review.
 
He says: “It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there’s not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean