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Tilo’s lover and a member of the Kashmiri resistance, Musa participates in a play with Tilo, Biplab, and Naga as a young man while he is in architecture school. There, the other boys are intimidated by his quiet but strong presence, and as an adult he maintains the same powerful air. Musa joins the Kashmiri resistance officially after his wife, Arifa, and daughter, Miss Jebeen, are murdered in a massacre on the balcony outside their home. After this, he disappears into the underground resistance and dies a martyr for Kashmiri independence.
Musa Quotes in The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
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Chapter 9
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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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“If that fool didn’t know how to live here with the military, why did he have to come into this world in the first place?”
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Chapter 12
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How
to
tell
a
shattered
story?
By
slowly
becoming
everybody.
No.
By slowly becoming everything.
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Musa Quotes in The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
The The Ministry of Utmost Happiness quotes below are all either spoken by Musa or refer to Musa. 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:
).
Chapter 9
Quotes
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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“If that fool didn’t know how to live here with the military, why did he have to come into this world in the first place?”
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Chapter 12
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How
to
tell
a
shattered
story?
By
slowly
becoming
everybody.
No.
By slowly becoming everything.
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