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Imam Ziauddin
Musa’s daughter, who dies at the age of three in a massacre in Srinagar, Kashmir. Her mother, Arifa, has gone outside to watch the funeral procession of Ustad Hameed Khan, when an explosion goes off, inspiring soldiers to fire at the crowd. The bullet that kills mother and daughter enters through Miss Jebeen’s temple and goes through her mother’s heart. Miss Jebeen is the namesake for Miss Jebeen the Second, whom Tilo names after Musa’s deceased daughter out of love for him.
Miss Jebeen Quotes in The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
The The Ministry of Utmost Happiness quotes below are all either spoken by Miss Jebeen or refer to Miss Jebeen. 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
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On this occasion Miss Jebeen was by far the biggest draw. The cameras closed in on her, whirring and clicking like a worried bear. From that harvest of photographs, one emerged a local classic. For years it was reproduced in papers and magazines and on the covers of human rights reports that no one ever read.
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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.”
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Miss Jebeen Quotes in The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
The The Ministry of Utmost Happiness quotes below are all either spoken by Miss Jebeen or refer to Miss Jebeen. 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
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On this occasion Miss Jebeen was by far the biggest draw. The cameras closed in on her, whirring and clicking like a worried bear. From that harvest of photographs, one emerged a local classic. For years it was reproduced in papers and magazines and on the covers of human rights reports that no one ever read.
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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.”
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