Vision Factor

Arundhithi Roy Roy has said in one of her interviews that she has lived for more than ten years with the characters of the novels in the novel “The Ministry of Utmost Happiness”. She has not presented characters of her novels out of mere imagination but the factual realities. Even, the non-biased critics of the novel have acknowledged that Roy has documented historical and cultural facts f current India, or the state that came into existence after getting independence from British Colonial rule. The sparks of denouncement and explosive hidden psyche is clearly visible in the marginalized characters of the novel.  Arundhiti Roy has not only written a novel for the sake of mere fiction, but a critical analysis or post- mortem of her own country whom she loves from the core of the heart. She want it to be true secular and liberal state, and that’s why we can the clear statements of revolt in her novel under study which is very much like the essays she had switched to after the...