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Imam Ziauddin
Musa’s daughter, who dies at the age of three in a massacre in Srinagar, Kashmir. Her mother, Arifa, has gone outside to watch the funeral procession of Ustad Hameed Khan, when an explosion goes off, inspiring soldiers to fire at the crowd. The bullet that kills mother and daughter enters through Miss Jebeen’s temple and goes through her mother’s heart. Miss Jebeen is the namesake for Miss Jebeen the Second, whom Tilo names after Musa’s deceased daughter out of love for him.
Miss Jebeen Quotes in The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
The The Ministry of Utmost Happiness quotes below are all either spoken by Miss Jebeen or refer to Miss Jebeen. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 9 Quotes
On this occasion Miss Jebeen was by far the biggest draw. The cameras closed in on her, whirring and clicking like a worried bear. From that harvest of photographs, one emerged a local classic. For years it was reproduced in papers and magazines and on the covers of human rights reports that no one ever read.
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The corrosion in Kashmir ran so deep that Amrik Singh was genuinely unaware of the irony of picking up a man whose wife and child had just been shot and bringing him forcibly, under armed guard, to an interrogation center at four in the morning, only in order to offer his commiseration.”
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Miss Jebeen Character Timeline in The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
The timeline below shows where the character Miss Jebeen appears in The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 8
...of her are balloons and a days-old cake, surrounded by ants, on which “Happy Birthday Miss Jebeen ” is written in icing. Tilo is happy, for she knows that for her, “the...
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...other key to her apartment. But the documents are very important: pictures of Musa’s daughter, Miss Jebeen , her mother, Arifa, and Musa’s artificial identification cards from various nationalities. On the back...
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...to, and yet a world apart from where, over eighteen years ago, her young ancestor, Miss Jebeen the First had ended hers.”
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Chapter 9
Miss Jebeen the First has always insisted on being called “Miss.” In the early years of the Kashmir occupation,...
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By the time she dies, Miss Jebeen hasn’t “notched up” many todays, but then again “the algebra of infinite justice [is] never...
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The day Miss Jebeen and Arifa die, they are sitting on the balcony outside their home watching the funeral...
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...the professor's funeral, Arifa wants to honor the deceased professor but doesn’t want to put Miss Jebeen in danger by going out into the street to join the funeral procession. They watch...
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Photographs taken of Miss Jebeen at her funeral become wildly popular in the world of the documentation of suffering. They...
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At the mass funeral in which Miss Jebeen and Arifa are buried, many young men, rage ignited inside them like a fire, begin...
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When Musa is arrested, he is at home grieving Arifa’s and Miss Jebeen ’s deaths after the funeral. His father, Showkat Yeswi, is the one to announce with...
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...does not accept the whiskey. That night, after writing a loving letter to the deceased Miss Jebeen and leaving a note for his sister to take to the mother of the boy...
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...other, and she learns that Musa will soon join them. Gulrez shows her pictures of Miss Jebeen and Arifa’s funeral, and Tilo understands that the women are Musa’s family. Musa finally arrives...
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The two continue talking into the night, and Musa finally tells Tilo the story of Miss Jebeen and Arifa. The “horrible way” in which he met Arifa, apparently, was in the middle...
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...go to visit Gulrez’s grave. While at the graveyard, Tilo also pays a visit to Miss Jebeen ’s grave, as well as Arifa’s. Back at the hotel, Tilo knocks on Naga’s door...
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