The traditional dichotomous gender paradigm is oppressive, especially for transgendered people whose sense of themselves as gendered people is incongruent with the gender they were assigned at birth. Gender is a ubiquitous social construct that wields power over every individual in our society. Identities which does not conform to the strict and rigid confines of gender and sexual binaries of society. The paper argues how the writer challenges and subverts gender identities as social constructs and celebrates the possibility of queer

The theoretical premise of queer theory is employed to justify the reasons that underlie the representation of the third gender i.e. Literature, their representation is still a site of conflict. Though queer identity is being highlighted in contemporary They are stigmatized in society by diverse means which leads to their ostracisation in society and the space for treating the transgender as others take place. With the queer genders which are considered to be deviating from existing norms or confines of gender as set by society. This paper will analyze the depiction of the problem of social division faced by transgender using the Queer Theory. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness demonstrates on every page the miracle of Arundhati Roy's storytelling gifts.The paper explores the novel The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy and unravels the complexity of queer representation and social division issues through the Character of Anjum in the novel. And then we meet the two Miss Jebeens: the first a child born in Srinagar and buried in its overcrowded Martyrs' Graveyard the second found at midnight, abandoned on a concrete sidewalk in the heart of New Delhi.Īs this ravishing, deeply humane novel braids these lives together, it reinvents what a novel can do and can be. We meet Tilo's landlord, a former suitor, now an intelligence officer posted to Kabul.

We encounter the odd, unforgettable Tilo and the men who loved her - including Musa, sweetheart and ex-sweetheart, lover and ex-lover their fates are as entwined as their arms used to be and always will be. The tale begins with Anjum - who used to be Aftab - unrolling a threadbare Persian carpet in a city graveyard she calls home. Its heroes are people who have been broken by the world they live in and then rescued, patched together by acts of love - and by hope. Each of its characters is indelibly, tenderly rendered. It is an aching love story and a decisive remonstration, a story told in a whisper, in a shout, through unsentimental tears and sometimes with a bitter laugh. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness takes us on an intimate journey of many years across the Indian subcontinent - from the cramped neighborhoods of Old Delhi and the roads of the new city to the mountains and valleys of Kashmir and beyond, where war is peace and peace is war.

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