Roy’s mother, Mary, was a formidable woman in her own right. Her biggest achievements lay not just in what she did as a woman and educator, but in what she changed. Mary Roy challenged the Travancore ...

Arundhati Roy’s characters never shrink to fit the world’s expectations. They love too deeply, question too loudly, and live ...

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 ...

We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. Arundhati Roy, the Booker Prize-winning author of "The God of Small Things," is now publishing her first memoir. In ...

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 ...

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with acclaimed author Arundhati Roy about her new book "Mother Mary Comes to Me," her first major work of autobiography. Ever since Arundhati Roy's writing made her famous ...

In the spring of 1997, Arundhati Roy’s debut novel, The God of Small Things, became an international sensation, marking a watershed moment in a new wave of Indian writing in English. That June, The ...

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 ...

IT HAS BEEN nearly three decades since Arundhati Roy’s vivid, poetic novel “The God of Small Things” won the Booker, Britain’s most prestigious literary prize. Back in 1997, after the cold war and ...

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 ...