Kottayam: Noted educationist and social worker Mary Roy, whose legal battle ensured equal rights for Syrian Christian women in their ancestral property, died on Thursday, family sources said. She was 89-years-old. Roy, mother of writer and Man Booker Prize Winner Arundhati Roy, is also the founder of the famous Pallikoodam school near here. (PTI)
Noted author Arundhati Roy's mother Mary Roy passes away
Mary Roy, an educationist and front runner for women's rights died on Thursday. A social activist, she won a lawsuit in the Supreme Court against gender biased laws governing inheritance back in 1986.
Mary Roy, noted social worker and mother of writer Arundhati Roy, died at 89
Kottayam: Noted educationist and social worker Mary Roy, whose legal battle ensured equal rights for Syrian Christian women in their ancestral property, died on Thursday, family sources said. She was 89-years-old. Roy, mother of writer and Man Booker Prize Winner Arundhati Roy, is also the founder of the famous Pallikoodam school near here. (PTI)
