Role of Trauma in Transgender from Arundhati Roy’s, “The Ministry of Utmost Happiness”
Abstract
God’s creations are unique with different specifications in particular. He has given men the dominion over his creations and crowned with glory and honour. His every creation is exclusive by nature. The Almighty’s one of the exclusive creations is the transgender. Each and every transgender rely on the other for their day-to-day life. In general, it can be said that they are not independent. Arundhati Roy in her writings The Ministry of Utmost Happiness describes a boy named Aftab, found to be a transgender who gets involved in comforting forsaken people like orphans, men and women cast out of the family, uncared, destitute, etc., in a remote prohibited graveyard. She engages herself in Karbala, generally known as Jantar Mantar where the battle for Justice, the battle of good against evil was being fought. This paper not only describes the trauma of Anjum (Aftab) but the transgender community on the whole and its impact on them.