Arundhati Roy’s coruscating new memoir centers her tumultuous relationship with her mother Mary Roy, a brilliant but volatile pathbreaker the acclaimed novelist calls “my mother, my gangster...my ...

For as long as the Indian novelist, Booker Prize winner and activist Arundhati Roy can remember, her mother was — or pretended to be — dying. A chronic asthmatic with a flair for drama, Mary Roy kept ...

“Perhaps even more than a daughter mourning the passing of her mother, I mourn her as a writer who has just lost her most enthralling subject.” Roy has become one of the most fearless voices for ...

In 1969, when she was nine years old, a newspaper photo of a severed head made an impression on young Roy. The head belonged to a landlord near Kottayam whom the Naxalites had slain. The far-left ...

In Mother Mary Comes to Me, the icon of Indian letters revisits the time that forged her as a writer. Arundhati Roy, 2002. After college, I took a long trip to India. The ostensible reason was to ...

In her new book and first memoir, the Indian writer sheds light on those dedications. LKC is Arundhati Roy’s brother, Lalith Kumar Christopher. The pair of them “survived” a tough upbringing at the ...

The prizewinning novelist’s unsparing memoir, “Mother Mary Comes to Me,” captures the eventful life and times of her mother, a driven educator and imperfect inspiration. Arundhati Roy with her brother ...

memoir is like a trial in which the writer is both a prosecutor and an arbiter facing a largely hostile jury of readers. Adjectives seem ineffectual in seizing the body of the memoir. But Arundhati ...

Arundhati Roy identifies as a vagrant. There was a moment in 1997, right after the Delhi-based writer became the first Indian citizen to win the Booker Prize, for her best-selling debut, The God of ...

Debjani Ganguly has received funding from the ARC and the Mellon and Chiang Ching Kuo Foundations. “She was my shelter and my storm.” With these words in the opening pages of her memoir, Arundhati Roy ...