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The court said the petition was filed for publicity, not legal grounds.

PIL filed to cast aspersions on Arundhati Roy: Kerala HC on petition to bar sale of her book

October 13, 2025 4:34 pm

The Kerala High Court rejected a public interest petition seeking to ban Arundhati Roy’s Mother Mary Comes to Me for depicting smoking on its cover, citing misuse of PIL.

Does the cover of Arundhati Roy’s latest book violate any law?

September 20, 2025 2:25 pm

The COTPA prohibits the advertisement of tobacco products, and regulates their sale. Does the cover of Arundhati Roy’s latest book, in which she is smoking a beedi, violate this law?

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Petition in Kerala HC wants cover of Arundhati Roy’s memoir to come with health warning

September 18, 2025 6:54 pm

The petition seeks ban on the sale, circulation and display of Arundhati Roy’s memoir ‘Mother Mary Comes to Me’ with its present cover without a statutory warning. Actions exert a strong influence over the youth and the reading public, particularly teenage girls and women, says petitioner.

Remembering Mary Roy: A matriarch who loved deeply and protected her kin — her students

September 02, 2025 1:42 pm

As Arundhati Roy’s Mother Mary Comes to Me hits shelves, a student from the 1981 batch of Corpus Christi (now Pallikoodam), Kerala, remembers the education he received, which was probing, asking, discovering, creative and collaborative all at once

'Once you've had a rocky and unsafe childhood, you can't trust safety': Arundhati Roy

September 13, 2025 2:21 pm

The Booker Prize-winning author on writing her mother, Mary Roy, into literature, life on the margins, and discovering in the personal, the grammar of power, hierarchy and violence in the world

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Two Indian Booker winners – Arundhati Roy and Kiran Desai – on 2025 Kirkus Prize shortlist

October 28, 2025 6:57 pm

Booker-winning authors Arundhati Roy and Kiran Desai shortlisted for the 2025 Kirkus Prize, one of the world’s richest literary honours.

Recalling the life of Mary Roy, mother of Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy

September 02, 2025 1:02 am

From winning a historic property rights case to creating one of Kerala’s most unconventional schools, Arundhati Roy’s mother lived on her own terms.

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‘We are being lied to... responding to request to hate each other’: Arundhati Roy

August 29, 2025 3:30 pm

Roy’s account unsettles the familiar myth of motherhood and replaces it with something knottier, more alive: a portrait of inheritance that is equal parts brilliance and bruise, an upbringing that was as creative and dazzling as it was difficult and scarring.

Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, will release her first memoir, Mother Mary Comes to Me. (Source: Penguin)

A guide to reading Arundhati Roy: From 'The God of Small Things' to 'Mother Mary Comes to Me'

September 24, 2025 3:11 pm

From Booker-winning fiction to incendiary essays, Arundhati Roy has emerged as a defiant voice in literature and politics. With her first memoir arriving, here’s how to navigate her remarkable body of work.

The covers of banned books Booker-prize-winning author Arundhati Roy’s Azadi and journalist Anuradha Bhasin's A Dismantled State: The Untold Story of Kashmir After Article 370. The books have been banned in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K).

7 books that faced bans in India and why they were controversial

October 12, 2025 9:28 am

The Jammu & Kashmir Home Department has banned 25 books on Kashmir, citing concerns over “secessionist content” and their alleged role in spreading misinformation, glorifying militancy, and undermining national sovereignty.

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Happy birthday, Arundhati Roy: 15 memorable quotes from her novels

November 24, 2017 2:58 pm

Over the years Arundhati Roy donned several hats,speaking and writing about socially relevant issues yet we cannot help but hang on her every word. Roy, as a novelist, weaves magic. On her birthday we bring to you 15 of her most heartbreaking quotes.

20 quotes from Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things that will make you crave for her next book

June 04, 2017 5:56 pm

Arundhati Roy's words are like magic and it is no fault of ours that we are impatiently waiting for her next non-fiction novel - The Ministry of Utmost Happiness.