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DELHI — "Someone once asked me what my mother's greatest legacy to me was," Arundhati Roy said at a private gathering in the Indian capital, Delhi, recently. "I said an overactive middle finger."That crack — sharp, irreverent, wickedly funny — is the perfect way into the Booker Prize-winning author and activist's new memoir, Mother Mary Comes to Me. It is the story of Mary Roy, her formidable, mercurial mother: feminist icon, educator, crusader, eccentric, bully, inspiration. A woman who, as her daughter writes, was "my shelter and my storm".Arundhati Roy was an architect, actor, screenwriter and production designer before turning novelist. Her debut The God of Small Things — a childhood-inspired family saga — won the 1997 Booker. It was...
September 05, 2025
'My mother was my shelter and storm': Arundhati Roy on her fierce new memoir
September 04, 2025
Restored Big Ben tower up for architecture award
September 03, 2025
US filmmaker in legal battle over 'Downton Shabby'
September 02, 2025
Dances With Wolves star Graham Greene dies aged 73
August 14, 2025
Baby Shark did not plagiarize, South Korea's top court rules
August 06, 2025
‘The Walking Dead’ actress Kelley Mack dies at 33
August 06, 2025
Ed Sheeran surprises fans with Irish performance
BIRMINGHAM — Fans, musicians and former bandmates have paid tribute to Ozzy Osbourne, the frontman of pioneering heavy metal band Black Sabbath, who has died aged 76.Black Sabbath have "lost our brother", said the band's co-founder Tony Iommi, while bassist Geezer Butler remembered their final gig and drummer Bill Ward shared an old photo of them together.The music icon's death on Tuesday came just weeks after his band played their farewell gig in his home city of Birmingham."He loved what he did, he loved music, he loved playing together, and I'm so glad we had the opportunity of getting together again to do the [farewell] show," Iommi told BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Wednesday."It was brilliant being with all the guys again, and the...
July 23, 2025
Music stars and fans pay tribute to Ozzy Osbourne
July 16, 2025
Harry Potter actress Emma Watson banned from driving for speeding
July 15, 2025
Beyoncé's unreleased music stolen from car during Cowboy Carter tour
