![]() As Roy describes it: “Normality in our part of the world is a bit like a boiled egg: its humdrum surface conceals at its heart a yolk of violence, our memory of its past labours and our dread of its future manifestations, that lays down the rules for how a people as complex and diverse as we are continue to coexist - continue to live together, tolerate each other and, from time to time, murder one another. It’s about violence, and how it lives under the surface in India. It’s about the Union Carbide gas leak, in Bhopal, that killed thousands upon thousands of people. ![]() It’s about the inefficiency of politicians, the limits of democracy and the challenges of protest. About inter-religious tensions, power struggles and abuses of power. It’s about the nature of sectarian conflict what starts it, how it escalates, and who can win it. ![]() Because The Ministry of Utmost Happiness isn’t really about Anjum and her graveyard home, or Tilo and her painful relationship with her mother. ![]()
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