![]() At the Jannat Guest House, two people who have known each other all their lives sleep with their arms wrapped around each other, as though they have just met. In a second-floor apartment, a lone woman chain-smokes as she reads through her old notebooks. In a snowy valley, a bereaved father writes a letter to his five-year-old daughter about the people who came to her funeral. On a concrete sidewalk, a baby suddenly appears, just after midnight. In a graveyard outside the walls of Old Delhi, a resident unrolls a threadbare Persian carpet. It takes us deep into the lives of its gloriously rendered characters, each of them in search of a place of safety-in search of meaning, and of love. ![]() ![]() Summary: The Ministry of Utmost Happiness transports us across a subcontinent on a journey of many years. ![]()
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