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Mother Mary Comes to Me

I think it was a good experience reading Arundhati Roy's memoir written about her mother Mary Roy, leading educationist and ...

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Maria Joy
Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
I teach English literature for a living. I have always been fascinated by the interconnections between fiction and life and the thin boundaries between them. I'm an idealist romantic quixotic dreamer who loves to record her occasional literary endeavours. I blog, therefore I am.
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