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Killing the Mother: Arundhati Roy’s ‘Mother Mary Comes to Me’

This was in 1998 when the western media was mooning over a novel that had won the Booker, the first time, from the Indian subcontinent. I was in the middle of completing my thesis and the fact that New York Times was lauding it as a novel about the “decline and fall of an Indianfamily”Continue reading “Killing the Mother: Arundhati Roy’s ‘Mother Mary Comes to Me’”