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Detailed explanation-1: -The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy review – a patchwork of narratives. The drama of the unforthcoming second novel is often a great deal more intense and traumatic to literary onlookers than it is to their putative creators.

Detailed explanation-2: -The second part altogether starts without a clue with Biplab Das as the narrator, introduced as „The Landlord‟ by the title, and later as Hobart Garson (the name by which Tilo called him since he acted out that role in their skit).

Detailed explanation-3: -The central characters of the book – Anjum, Tilottama, Musa and Saddam – roam in the peripheries of society. Anjum, an Old Delhi hijra and survivor of the Gujarat pogrom, exiles herself to the neighbourhood graveyard after losing the affection of her adopted daughter.