Overview

• Published on August 28 by Penguin Hamish Hamilton/PRH India, the book marks Roy’s debut in memoir after earlier listings suggested a September release.
• The narrative centers on Mary Roy’s life and influence, written after her death in 2022, with Arundhati Roy describing it as an unsparing remembrance rather than a hagiography.
• Mary Roy’s 1986 Supreme Court victory extended equal inheritance rights to Kerala’s Syrian Christian women under the Indian Succession Act of 1925.
• An educator who founded Corpus Christi (later Pallikkoodam) in 1967, Mary Roy advanced a child‑centered curriculum that favored questioning, creativity, and early learning in Malayalam.
• The launch arrives as Roy’s political essays draw renewed scrutiny, with Azadi recently proscribed in Kashmir, and she reiterates that she writes when it becomes harder to keep quiet.