1 5 All photos: Sourced by correspondentADVERTISEMENTIndian author-activist Arundhati Roy spoke about her memoir, Mother Mary Comes To Me, at St Xavier’s College in Kolkata on Wednesday. 2 5At the event, held at the Depelchin Auditorium, Roy spoke at length about her long period of introspection before deciding to write the book. 3 5For Roy, her mother, Mary Roy, was never an ideal model of morality, but a complex and compelling figure who, at times, became a source of inspiration for her writing. 4 5Roy further said, “And so I started to write Mother Mary Comes to Me, and I used to write it in the day. She reminisced about her days spent with her brother Lalit Kumar Christopher Roy and her ‘memorable’ encounter with her father Ranjit Roy.

Source: The Telegraph January 15, 2026 20:39 UTC