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’.
'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.'
Mary Roy is best known for fighting the landmark case that allowed Kerala’s Syrian Christian women equal rights in their father’s property. But what defines her...
In 2024-25, India exported $387.54 bn worth of services, against imports of $198.14 bn, earning all-time high surplus of $189.40 bn. This offset 2/3rd of goods trade deficit.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
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