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.