437. Mother Mary Comes to Me
Arundhati Roy with Arundhati Ghosh
Memory and identity. Personal and political. Mothers and daughters.
Mother Mary Comes to Me is Arundhati Roy’s most personal work yet. At its centre is Mary Roy, her mother: abusive, brilliant, impossible to understand, and impossible to forget. A woman who challenged the Travancore Christian Succession Act before the Supreme Court and won. A woman who was, as Roy writes, both shelter and storm.
In conversation with Arundhati Ghosh, Roy reflects on the writing of this memoir, her journey from a rocky childhood to literary stardom, and what it means to reckon with a person you have spent a lifetime trying to fathom.
A signing with the author will follow.
Disclaimer: Any depiction of smoking in this book is for representational purposes only. Penguin Random House India and Bangalore International Centre do not promote or endorse tobacco use.
In collaboration with:
Bangalore Literature Festival
In this episode of BIC Talks, Arundhati Roy with Arundhati Ghosh. This is an excerpt from a conversation that took place in the BIC premises in March 2026.
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