BOOK TALK: THE MINISTRY OF UTMOST HAPPINESS
27 July 2017—School of Business Studies and Social Sciences, Christ University Arundhati Roy took a very long interval in her creative life. Akin to her style of mixing poetry with prose let’s call this ‘gap’, a ‘caesura’. She broke this silence with yet another masterpiece, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness . The novel in spite of being in the news as Roy’s second novel in 20 years is again inviting attention by being longlisted for the Man Booker Prize Awards 2017, a rare achievement for any author to be consecutively shortlisted for both her works. In the backdrop of such attention the book was taken up by Ellipsis, the English Association of the BGR campus, for its second session of Book Talk for the academic year 2017-18. The class in charge of the event was 1 MA English with Cultural Studies. The discussion was held at the Christ University BGR Campus Library on 27 July 2017 from 3:45 to 5:00 p.m. The gathering was welcomed by Dr Meghna Mudaliar who gave a general int