Set within the narrative of Roy’s romance with India’s others, the article focuses on the Tilo–Musa romance in The Ministry of Utmost Happiness and compares it with the Ammu–Velutha romance in the author’s first novel, The God of Small Things, published in 1997. This article aims to look at the texture of romance in Roy’s novels.
The narrative of Roy’s latest political romance shows these others carving out new spaces for themselves, defying convention, trying possible new lives, and testing out new roles. The novel is inhabited by cohorts of others: hijras, political rebels, the poor, women who will not “know their place”, and abandoned baby girls. Arundhati Roy’s second and latest novel, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness - which took her 10 years to write - is crammed full of misfits and outsiders, the flotsam and jetsam of India’s complex, stratified society.
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