If Arundhati Roy didn’t exist, we’d have to invent her

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is like a punch to your gut, and if it leaves you winded be grateful.

How media chronicled Arundhati Roy's The Ministry of Utmost Happiness with pretentious, self-involved think pieces

What the reviews of Arundhati Roy's new book say about reviewers

Media critiques of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness are unfortunately pretentious, self-involved think pieces.

In its dogged refusal to become a thing of beauty, it celebrates the androgynously loving, hideous leftovers of 21st century Indianness.

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness marks the end of imagination for Arundhati Roy as a novelist

With The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, the goddess of political fiction returns with a whimper.

Arundhati Roy. [Photo: Mayank Austen Soofi]

'The Ministry of Utmost Happiness' will be out in 2017 and, by the sound of it, it seems she'll make chest-beating nationalists burn once again.