Book Review The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

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Documentation: Preparing the list of work cited 

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Importance of Preparing a Works Cited List

The purpose of documentation is to allow your reader to check your sources. Perhaps he/she  has become so interested in your subject that he/she wants to learn more; perhaps he/she mistrusts your interpretations and wants to compare them with the original source. In either case, the reader should easily be able to find your sources using the bibliographical information you provide in your list of works cited.

Bibliographies list sources related to the topic of your paper. A bibliography provides your reader with a general listing of the sources that you have used or that a reader may wish to consult in researching your topic. There are essentially two types of bibliographies:

1)Works Consulted and

2)Works Cited (sometimes called References or Sources).

Book Review of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

Arundhati Roy, full name Suzanna Arundhati Roy, (born November 24, 1961, Shilling,Meghalaya, India), Indian author, actress, and political activist who was best known for the award-winning novel The God of Small Things (1997) and for her involvement in environmental and human rights causes.

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, a 2017 novel by Arundhati Roy, follows the interconnected lives of several characters against the backdrop of contemporary India. Large cast of characters, including a transgender woman and a resistance fighter in Kashmir.

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness starts with question Where Do Old Birds Go to Die? Then the suffering of Anjum is shown. The next chapter is about Khwabgah the childhood of Anjum/ Aftab. Anjum, a hijra, or transwoman, struggling to make a life for herself in Delhi. The other follows Tilo, a thorny and irresistible architect turned activist (who seems to be modeled on Roy herself), and the three men who fall in love with her.The story line shift from one story to another.It's very difficult to catch the story it moves like water one wave to another.

Roy has merge real incidents into Fiction through different characters.Here are few examples for Fact and Fiction .Godhra Riots 2002 - Anjum and Zakir Mian after their visit to holy place they came to Ahmedabad and riots started.

 Una Case(lynching of Dalit) - Saddam Hussain father's lynching was done by shehrawat and even was killed in Haryana.

Hanging of Saddam Hussein by America- Inspiration for Dayachand to adopt the name Saddam Hussein because he wanted to take revenge for his father's death and wanted to kill Shehrawat.

While reading the first character you get revelation of whole story in fourth chapter so one has to be alert While reading the novel .The story begins and ends in a graveyard. And in between so many incident took place. The novel is mysterious addresses a wide range of issues facing contemporary Indian society. 

Citation 

Arora, Chhagan. "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy, (2017) Summary in Hindi." YouTube, English with Chhagan Arora, 9 Dec. 2018,  youtu.be/7vu8-3aA9fs. Accessed 16 January 2023.

“Preparing a Works Cited List.” Skidmore College, Skidmore College , www.skidmore.edu/writing_guide/list.php#. 

Roy, Arundhati. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. India, Penguin Random House India Private Limited, 2018.

Tikkanen, Amy. "Arundhati Roy". Encyclopedia Britannica, 5 Jan. 2023, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Arundhati-Roy. Accessed 16 January 2023.

"Verve Magazine" , 3 June 2017, www.vervemagazine.in/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Arundhati-Roy.jpg.