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Abstract
India is a multicultural country which hosts different cultures and ideologies. In India, transgenders have a very ancient history. Hijras are one of the most discreditable social groups which over the years have occupied an extremely marginalized position in Indian society.The Ministry of Utmost Happinesstakesus on an intimate journey of many years across the Indian subcontinent- from the cramped neighbourhood of Old Delhi and the roads of the new city to the mountains and valleys of Kashmir and beyond, where war is peace and peace is war. It is an aching love story and a decisive dispute, a story told in a whisper, in a shout, through unsentimental tears and sometimes with a bitter laugh. The fiction holds the unbearable truths of society such as miserable condition of minorities, humiliated lifestyles of transgenders, mediocre government, and life of injustice, inequality and prejudice.