Vision Factor

  The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is a literary rebellion by Arundhati Roy on the predefined norms and culture of Indian society. One that is highly influenced by the colonial psyche and a contempt to make so many individuals and communities as marginalized or subaltern, as term that Gyatri Spivak used to describe the post-colonial ethics and rules in India. Roy is not satisfied with surface value of ‘Secularism’ and ‘Shining and Incredible India’, when so many people are suffering within its geographical boundaries. Secular and Marxist by heart, she wants a social justice for all classes. She cannot bear the consequences of having a subaltern state due to an unspecified gender identity like Anjum. He as Aftab had to stop attending school at the age of nine as his/her gender identity was not defined as per social but subaltern rules. Later, she had to leave the music classes as sound of gender discrimination keeps on mongering in his ears like he-she-he-she-he-hehe…!! She crie...