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Arundhati Roy: Mother Mary Comes to Me (Hardcover, 2025, Penguin Books, Limited)

Mother Mary Comes to Me, Arundhati Roy’s first work of memoir, is a soaring account, …

When it came to me, Mrs. Roy taught me how to think, then raged against my thoughts. She taught me to be free and raged against my freedom. She taught me to write and resented the author I became.

— Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy (22%)

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Mother Mary Comes to Me, #ArundhatiRoy’s first work of memoir, is a soaring account, both intimate and inspirational, of how the author became the person and the writer she is, shaped by circumstance, but above all by her complex relationship to the extraordinary, singular mother she describes as “my shelter and my storm.”

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Mother-Mary-Comes-to-Me/Arundhati-Roy/9781668094716

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“What we need are people who are prepared to be unpopular. Who are prepared to put themselves in danger. Who are prepared to tell the truth. Brave journalists can do that, and they have. Brave lawyers can do that, and they have. And artists — beautiful, brilliant, brave writers, poets, musicians, painters and filmmakers can do that.

That beauty is on our side.

All of it.”

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https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/art-and-culture/we-are-being-lied-to-responding-to-request-to-hate-each-other-arundhati-roy-10215277/?ref=hometop_hp

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Re-reading Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things. The background is reflection of lamps in the windowpane. Atmosphere is quiet and warm.
I first read this book when I was in middle school. It was a phenomenon. Indian writer that too a woman was being talked about in global literary circles. Arundhati Roy was the cool writer in the town, Unapologetically Indian writer. My middle school brain wasn't prepared to understand the nuances of this book back then. I have read much of Arundhati's works since then and am an avid reader of her non fiction works. Her essays are a delight to read. Yet I didn't recommend this book to anyone for years. I bought a copy two years back and finally decided to re-read it in an attempt to understand the love this book has continued to receive.
After reading a few pages. I get it. It's a phenomenal book. So Indian and so universal. Its a reminder that we live in a very cruel world. And I'm tempted to say very little matters apart from the love you get and give.

Dr Julia Molinari

"I do not tell oppressed people how to resist their oppression [...] which of us [...] would willingly submit to the indignity that Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bankk have faced for decades"

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IndiaNewsWatch

Arundhati Roy is being hounded by the Indian state. This is a test case for its democracy

That the author could be prosecuted for comments made 13 years ago is absurd – but also a deadly threat to freedom of speech, writes Meena Kandasamy. (Article from October 2023)

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