![]() Jannat Guest House becomes home to other marginalized and persecuted characters like herself. There, Anjum transforms the cemetery into a guest house, called “Jannat” (or “Paradise”) Guest House, and creates Jannat Funeral Services. However, at the age of 46 years old, Anjum survives a massacre in Ahmedabad and leaves the Khabgah in order to move into a cemetery ten minutes away. Anjum remains with the Khwabgah for 30 years, during which time she raises a little girl named Zainab. The 18-year-old Anjum then falls in with the residents of the so-called “Khwabgah,” meaning “House of Dreams.” Many of the residents of the Khwabgah are either hermaphrodites or transsexuals. When Aftab reaches puberty, he elects for gender reassignment surgery and becomes Anjum, a glamorous, affectionate woman. The novel opens with Aftab, a hermaphrodite born in Old Delhi. In her novel, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, author Arundhati Roy uses multiple perspectives to tell a layered, multidimensional story that spans the Indian Subcontinent and multiple decades. ![]() The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Roy, Arundhati. ![]()
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