From the New York Times, this is the interview.

I'm Lulu Garcia Navarro.

As we get older, we often struggle to untangle the impact our parents have on our lives.

For acclaimed author Arandachi Roy, that process of excavation

happened after her mother's death in 2022 through writing. Her new memoir, Mother Mary, comes to me,

is more than just a chronicle of her complex relationship with her mother, whose bouts of clawing,

lashing fury, as Roy describes it, scarred both

her and her brother. It's also about Roy herself, and why she's become a writer transfixed

by the pain and suffering of those around her. Roy has spent her career writing about the

rich lives and deep struggles of marginalized and oppressed

people in India. Her Booker Prize winning first novel, The God of Small Things, has sold over

six million copies and made her an international literary star when it came out in 1997. What followed

over the next several decades were dozens of articles pointing her pen at a range of injustices,

from India's caste system to the treatment of Muslims, especially in Indian-controlled Kashmir.

Both her work and her person have been repeatedly targeted by India's government under populist

leader Narendra Modi. And she's currently facing possible prosecution under anti-terrorism laws for comments she made years ago about the territorial conflict in Kashmir.

When we spoke, we started with her mother's story.

But in our second conversation, she talked about the cost of speaking out and her fears for America under President Trump.

Here's my conversation with author Arandati Roy.

Hi.

Hi, Lulu.

How are you?

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