The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

by

Arundhati Roy

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Tilo’s lover and a member of the Kashmiri resistance, Musa participates in a play with Tilo, Biplab, and Naga as a young man while he is in architecture school. There, the other boys are intimidated by his quiet but strong presence, and as an adult he maintains the same powerful air. Musa joins the Kashmiri resistance officially after his wife, Arifa, and daughter, Miss Jebeen, are murdered in a massacre on the balcony outside their home. After this, he disappears into the underground resistance and dies a martyr for Kashmiri independence.

Musa Quotes in The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

The The Ministry of Utmost Happiness quotes below are all either spoken by Musa or refer to Musa. 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

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.”

Related Characters: Musa, Major Amrik Singh, Miss Jebeen, Arifa
Page Number: 341
Explanation and Analysis:

“If that fool didn’t know how to live here with the military, why did he have to come into this world in the first place?”

Related Characters: Gulrez (speaker), Tilo, Musa
Page Number: 363
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 12 Quotes

How
to
tell
a
shattered
story?
By
slowly
becoming
everybody.
No.
By slowly becoming everything.

Related Characters: Tilo (speaker), Musa
Page Number: 442
Explanation and Analysis:
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Musa Quotes in The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

The The Ministry of Utmost Happiness quotes below are all either spoken by Musa or refer to Musa. 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:
Corruption, Political Violence, and Capitalism Theme Icon
).
Chapter 9 Quotes

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.”

Related Characters: Musa, Major Amrik Singh, Miss Jebeen, Arifa
Page Number: 341
Explanation and Analysis:

“If that fool didn’t know how to live here with the military, why did he have to come into this world in the first place?”

Related Characters: Gulrez (speaker), Tilo, Musa
Page Number: 363
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 12 Quotes

How
to
tell
a
shattered
story?
By
slowly
becoming
everybody.
No.
By slowly becoming everything.

Related Characters: Tilo (speaker), Musa
Page Number: 442
Explanation and Analysis: