Ministry of Maximum Happiness

Book name: Ministry of Maximum Happiness Author: Arundhati Roy Publisher: Books Khan for Publishing Book category: Novel Number of pages: 598 About the book: While India was preparing to rise to the ranks of great powers, a child was born in old Delhi whom his family saw as a boy and insisted he was a woman, so he named himself "Anjum" and lived among the effeminate known as Hijras who have been embraced by Indian civilization over the centuries. There Anjum learned dance, singing, pleasure, and pain.