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Mother of renowned author Arundhati Roy passes away

On: September 1, 2022

By Matters India Reporter Kottayam, Sept 1, 2022: Mary Roy, an educator and a women’s rights activist, died September 1 after a brief illness in Kottayam, a town in the southern Indian state of Kerala. She was 89. She was survived by two children, son Lalit Roy and daughter ArundhatiContinue Reading

Arundhati Roy announces second novel after a 20-year gap

By: Matters India

On: October 4, 2016

In: Art

Twenty years after Arundhati Roy won the 1997 Booker prize for her debut novel The God of Small Things, the Indian novelist’s second, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, is set to be published in 2017, her publisher has announced. Roy has published a wide range of nonfiction, covering topics fromContinue Reading