![]() You can't tell it (story) through human rights reports or journalistic accounts," she said. The fiction writer in me started going round and round. ![]() "Right from the first time I started going to Kashmir, I realised that only fiction can deal with it. She has written about its longstanding conflict in her essays, but feels only fiction can do justice to its story. The book focuses on two primary regions: India. That is why I think I am always writing," she said.Ī major part of Roy's second novel is set in Kashmir. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy depicts the author’s life and the problems that she faces and continues to see in today’s world. Every time I am able to write to close the gap between language and thought, the blood flows easier in my veins. Roy, who is quite often extolled for her lyrical description, credits renowned writers like William Shakespeare and Rudyard Kipling for it, saying it is her early readings of their work which "makes one hear my language rather than just see it". ![]() It is a more complex book and needs many many readings," she said. 'The God of Small Things' is about a family and people understand those coordinates, whereas 'The Ministry of Utmost Happiness' starts out with a shattered heart, it starts out with people who are strange to normal people. "This was an attempt to deal with something more complex. ![]()
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