One of Anjum’s most loyal and oldest clients, who works in construction in Iraq. D. D. Gupta is one of the first people to visit Anjum after she moves to the graveyard, and sends hot meals for her once a week by way of his servant. D. D. Gupta works selling construction materials to the American army in Baghdad, a job which initially he does not find at all morally corrupt but later grows to abhor. When he returns to India from Iraq, sick of all the violence, he takes to spending long afternoons with Anjum in Jannat Guest House and Funeral Services.
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D. D. Gupta Character Timeline in The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
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Chapter 2
...she suffers with her traumas in the graveyard, Anjum receives no visitors at first, but D.D. Gupta , a client of hers at the Khwabgah who works in construction in Iraq, comes...
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...the graveyard eat very well. Nimmo gifts Anjum a mobile phone, which, unlike the phone D.D. Gupta gifted her, she keeps.
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...that she has a friend who lives in Iraq, and shares with Saddam photos that D. D. Gupta has sent her. One of these is graffiti of the words of an American army...
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Chapter 10
...the old graveyard. The same, however, [cannot] be said of the Duniya.” Back from Baghdad, D.D. Gupta describes it to Anjum as “hell on earth,” and says he no longer has the...
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