Arundhati Roy’s coruscating new memoir centers her tumultuous relationship with her mother Mary Roy, a brilliant but volatile pathbreaker the acclaimed novelist calls “my mother, my gangster...my ...

Debutant filmmaker Anuparna Roy has made history at the 82nd Venice Film Festival, becoming the first Indian woman to win the prestigious Orizzonti Award for Best Director. Her feature Songs of ...

Mary Roy lay in a temperature-controlled coffin with a glass top in the dining room of her house in Kottayam in September 2022. Press photographers and a group of mourners gathered around her body.

Roughly 36 years after he was robbed of an Olympic championship, Roy Jones Jr. tearfully accepted the gold medal from the man who controversially beat him — Park Si Hun of South Korea. Park, now 59, ...

The prizewinning novelist’s unsparing memoir, “Mother Mary Comes to Me,” captures the eventful life and times of her mother, a driven educator and imperfect inspiration. Arundhati Roy with her brother ...

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Filmmaker Anuparna Roy created history at the 82nd edition of the Venice Film Festival, winning the Best Director in the Orizzonti Competition for her film Songs of Forgotten Trees. Presented by ...

Anuparna Roy is the winner of the Orizzonti best director award for 'Songs of the Forgotten Trees. (Image: AP) The 82nd Venice International Film Festival was held from August 27 to September 6 in ...

Men’s doubles shuttlers Wan Arif Wan Junaidi-Yap Roy King cruised into the quarter-finals of the Hong Kong Open today after an easy win over compatriots Choong Hon Jian-Haikal Nazri. Arif-Roy King won ...

In the spring of 1997, Arundhati Roy’s debut novel, The God of Small Things, became an international sensation, marking a watershed moment in a new wave of Indian writing in English. That June, The ...

The Booker Prize-winning novelist Arundhati Roy is talking to me from her apartment in Delhi. In her new book she relates how she bought this “beautiful” apartment “with the proceeds of literature”.

One of the most controversial moments in Olympic history has taken a surprise twist with former South Korean boxer Park Si-hun handing his gold medal over to Roy Jones Jr. Park defeated Jones Jr. by a ...