Africa Is a Country | 07.04.2026 19:00
In Mother Mary Comes To Me we learn that Arundhati Roy, the very same woman who spent time with Naxalite guerrillas in the Dandakaranya forest, the one who was called an “intellectual terrorist” and refused to be intimidated by India’s far-right nationalist government, is someone who grew up belittling herself, and who would a thousand times choose to disappear than cause any discomfort to her mother, her “shelter and [her] storm.” The memoir starts with her mother’s passing and takes readers through two sides of Roy that are equally true: the hypervisible and the invisible. Readers will soon realize that there wouldn’t be a Booker Prize-winner Arundhati Roy (who simply cannot not write sometimes) if she hadn’t learned about subjugation and irrational love first-hand.
