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SubscriberWrites: Reading Ms Roy

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PIL opposes Arundhati Roy’s smoking photo on book cover—right to life, ‘unhealthy message to youth’

Kerala High Court seeks Centre’s response on plea seeking stay on Roy's book 'Mother Mary Comes to Me' unless the mandatory statutory warning is printed on the cover.

Arundhati Roy book cover vs Kerala High Court is a ‘warning’

While a photograph of Roy smoking doesn’t ostensibly indicate an advertisement or promotion, the petitioner has referred to the cover as ‘intellectual arrogance’.

Arundhati Roy’s new book is a masterclass in marketing. Penguin started planning a year ago

Arundhati Roy visited the Penguin office in Gurugram every day for a week, signing every pre-ordered copy. The idea was to encourage readers to buy from bookstores instead of Amazon.

On Arundhati Roy, mother-daughter conflicts, and the burden of being a ‘good mother’

When reading the book, one can see Roy’s mother as a 'fascist government' unto herself, the centre of her own cult. In Arundhati’s words, Mary Roy was ‘mother guru’.

Arundhati Roy at Kochi book launch: ‘Everyone I love is here. Dangerous, given our govt’

'I love men,' said Arundhati Roy with an impish smile when asked if she saw them the way her mother, Mary Roy, did. 'I’m not bitter because I know how to handle them.'

Surat diamond hub ‘direct casualty’ of Trump’s tool of ‘political coercion’ & ‘choked’ Bengaluru

President Donald Trump’s tariffs on India continue to attract global media attention. Financial Times reports on the ‘unsustainable boom’ in India’s Silicon Valley—Bengaluru.

Arundhati Roy to Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Pakistani designer weaves ‘resistance’ into new collection

Karachi-based designer Mohsin Sayeed’s new collection, Peace De Resistance, makes a bold statement — style can be a tool for social change.

India denies visas to ‘thousands’ of Chinese tech workers & Biden falters in debate with Trump

Reports also discuss low-income Indians' 'unhappiness' with Modi, the absence of laws against marital rape, and why charges were brought against Arundhati Roy.

On Camera

Pakistan can’t bend Taliban with bombs. It must stop the Yemen-isation of Durand Line

This confrontation looks subcontracted—escalation to re-establish Pakistan's indispensability to outside capitals while squeezing Afghanistan back under an old paradigm.

Boom to bust: Haunted by Ketan Parekh saga, 117-yr-old Calcutta Stock Exchange’s future lies in limbo

CSE, one of India’s oldest bourses, is edging towards a voluntary exit. It could never recover from market manipulation scam that caused a payment crisis at exchange back in 2001. 

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

CJI, IPS, IAS & Homebound: A wake-up call 75 years in the making

Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.