The Ministry of Utmost Happiness: Building Paradise in a Graveyard
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The Ministry of Utmost Happiness: Building Paradise in a Graveyard This blog is part of Flipped learning activity assigned by Prof. Dr. Dilip Barad sir. 1. Part 1: Khwabgah- Anjum's World and Origins The novel's foundational settings, the Graveyard and the Khwabgah, are strategically deployed to establish its core thematic concerns. The narrative opens in a graveyard named Jannat (Paradise), immediately blurring the distinction between life and death and suggesting that sanctuary is not an afterlife but a space actively created on Earth by and for the marginalized. This setting gives way to the Khwabgah, the "House of Dreams," a community of hijras in Old Delhi. Together, these locations introduce the novel's profound engagement with forgotten identities, the search for belonging outside of societal norms, and the internal wars that mirror the external conflicts of the nation. Anjum's journey begins in this world, a personal story that will eventually inters...