The Current Arundhati Roy: My mother and I were like two nuclear powers

In her new book, the acclaimed author Arundhati Roy grapples with her complex relationship with her late mother, Mary Roy, a woman who she says "raged against the idea of motherhood."

"She told me many times that she had tried her best to abort me because she didn't want another child," Arundhati told The Current's Matt Galloway.

"Of course as an adult now, I can sort of understand that she felt so trapped and awful."

Mary Roy died in 2022, at age 88. She was a celebrated educator and women's rights activist in India, who won a landmark legal case around women's inheritance rights in the 1980s. But her early years as a mother were marked with struggle. She was a single parent to Arundhati and her older br

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