India, Sept. 26 -- Arundhati Roy is author of The God of Small Things (operatic, unforgettable), The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (ambitious, dense), My Seditious Heart (polemical, well-meaning) - and adding to this cabinet of curiosities is a glorious, grief-soaked memoir: Mother Mary Comes to Me. In the opening pages, September arrives "that most excellent month," signals an opportune time for her mother's death: even the Kerala weather turns into a requiem and old wounds become apertures to even older grief. Hardly is Mary Roy -formidable educator whose funeral drew alumni from across the state and an activist who forced the Supreme Court to recognise equal inheritance rights for Syrian Christian women - put to rest than the daughter m...