Memory and identity. Personal and political. Mothers and daughters.

Mother Mary Comes to Me is Arundhati Roy's most personal work yet. At its centre is Mary Roy, her mother: abusive, brilliant, impossible to understand, and impossible to forget. A woman who challenged the Travancore Christian Succession Act before the Supreme Court and won. A woman who was, as Roy writes, both shelter and storm.

In conversation with Arundhati Ghosh, Roy reflects on the writing of this memoir, her journey from a rocky childhood to literary stardom, and what it means to reckon with a person you have spent a lifetime trying to fathom.

A signing with the author will follow.

Disclaimer: Any depiction of smoking in this book is for representational purposes only. Penguin Random House India and Bangalore International Centre do not promote or endorse tobacco use.

In collaboration with:

Bangalore Literature Festival

In this episode of BIC Talks, Arundhati Roy with Arundhati Ghosh. This is an excerpt from a conversation that took place in the BIC premises in March 2026.

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Geopolitical realignments. Technological disruptions. The mounting urgency of the climate crisis.

As the world undergoes multiple, simultaneous transformations, India is faced with charting its own course.

Rajiv Kumar, Kamal Bali, Manish Sabharwal, Nitin Pai, and Mohandas Pai bring together perspectives from policy, industry, and innovation to examine what it will take to navigate this era of uncertainty. As India navigates frontier technologies like AI, strengthening strategic autonomy, addressing climate imperatives and fostering inclusive growth, the choices are critical.

How can we become a developed nation in the coming decades?

In collaboration with:

Pahle India Foundation

In this episode of BIC Talks, Rajiv Kumar, Kamal Bali, Manish Sabharwal and Nitin Pai will be in conversation with Mohandas Pai. This is an excerpt from a conversation that took place in the BIC premises in March 2026.

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The world changes, life is hard. That's not news.

But are millennials uniquely misunderstood, or simply the first generation to document their own confusion so thoroughly?

Deepika Arwind, author of Good Arguments, and AM Gautam, author of Indian Millennials, write from opposite ends of the same experience. One through fiction, the other through reportage. Both millennial. Both wrestling with power dynamics, divided loyalties, and what courage looks like when you have one foot in the old world and one inching towards the future.

This conversation, moderated by Arundhati Sridhar, is not about generational angst. It is about the structures we inherit and the space we carve out anyway.

Readings. Insights. The occasional uncomfortable truth.

In this episode of BIC Talks, Deepika Arwind and A.M Gautam will be in conversation with Arundhati Sridhar. This is an excerpt from a conversation that took place in the BIC premises in March 2026.

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