the ministry of utmost happiness by arundhati roy

(She has also been a consistent critic of American foreign policy in 2015, she met with Edward Snowden in Moscow, along with John Cusack and Daniel Ellsberg.)īut the long-lingering question of whether she would return to fiction has been answered with The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, her second novel, which is out this month. Over the years, Roy has been threatened and even accused of sedition she has also been the subject of debate in liberal circles, with some accusing her of being simplistic in her anti-capitalist rhetoric and naïve in her support for India’s Maoist uprisings. She has written about the role of India’s military in Kashmir and tribal areas, and spoken out against the rise of the Hindu right wing, including the current prime minister, Narendra Modi. (It was a huge best-seller and won the Booker Prize.) But in the past 20 years, Roy has followed a different path than one might have expected, composing essays and books about India, where she was born in 1961, and establishing herself as arguably the most outspoken commentator on Indian politics.

The response was pretty much everything an author could hope for from a debut.

Two decades ago, Arundhati Roy released her first novel, The God of Small Things.

The ministry of utmost happiness by arundhati roy