The Poetics of Pain and Protest: A Qualitative Exploration of Subaltern Voices in The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

Abstract

The present paper aims at analyzing The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy in the light of theoretical underpinnings of Jameson’s third world literature. The novel dawns upon the fragmented situations of Indian democracy and economy. In the current article, the idea of Aftab’s identity in the third world India is suggested which shows twists and turns in his life under the dynamics of socio-political realities. Moreover, the research delves in the national conflicts influencing the region of Kashmir where the lives of people allegorize with post-colonial fragmentation in the third world India. The key element of post-colonial marginal voices represents the power of third world India who is cause of suffering in the premises of Kashmir. The present study is qualitative in nature. It deploys the textual quotations and events of novel which allegorically refract the picture of third world India.