And I have personal copies of everything she has written and published from The God of Small Things to Broken Republic. She is the only writer who is politically correct and sane. (See my article “Gandhi, Ayyankali and Arundhati Roy,” Mainstream, October 4, 2014). The Ministry is filled with such dry passages and we can quote umpteen numbers of them.Īrundhati Roy is the only writer I love and respect in our country for her writings that are both compact and straightforward and enable the readers see things in the real socio-political perspective.

Their names occur only on this page and in this passage. And don’t think that Ram Saroop, Ashok Kumar, Charan Das and Ved Prakash are the characters of the ‘novel’. You can see what I have quoted above there. If you do have a copy of Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, flip the pages and go to the 272nd page. You must be thinking what nonsense I have been quoting. ‘The cattle which belong to Ram Saroop, Ashok Kumar, Charan Das, Ved Prakash and others were grazing near LoC when they crossed over to other side,’ locals told KGNS.

Share on WhatsApp Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Telegram Share on Reddit Share on Emailĭozens of Cattle Cross Line of Control (LoC) in RajouriĪt least 33 cattle including 29 buffaloes have crossed over to Pakistan side in Nowshera sector of Rajouri district in Jammu and Kashmir.Īccording to KGNS, the cattle crossed the LoC in Kalsian sub-sector.

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