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A doctor whom Ustad Kulsoom Bi and many other Hijras at the Khwabgah trust to manage their mental health treatment and gender-transition hormone treatments. While most of them trust that Dr. Bhagat is a skilled medical professional, Anjum is adamant in her refusal to take what seem to be the medicines he prescribes her for mental health purposes. Later in life, she admits that she has always thought his services are a scam.
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Dr. Bhagat Character Timeline in The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
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Chapter 2
...Anjum is crazy for wanting to leave, the women of the Khwabgah go and visit Dr. Bhagat , a doctor who prescribes many of them with mental health medication. Fearing (erroneously) that...
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Growing increasingly restless and unhappy, Anjum burns Dr. Bhagat ’s prescription, along with a collection of photographs and articles of her that she has...
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