Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Sept 1: Mary Roy, academician and women’s rights activist passed away on September 1 in Kottayam, Kerala at the age of 89.
Notably, Mary Roy was the mother of Booker Prize-winning author Arundhati Roy.
Mary Roy, a renowned educator and social worker, gained popularity for her victory in the “Mary Roy case,” a Supreme Court case that challenged Kerala’s Syrian Christian community’s discriminatory inheritance rules.
Roy filed a lawsuit against her brother George Isaac in 1960 to demand equal access to her father’s property. The conflict, which raged for 39 long years before being finally resolved in Mary Roy’s favour in 2009, is one of the foundations of gender justice in the nation. The decision guaranteed Syrian Christian women living in Kerala equal rights to family property.
Additionally, Mary Roy was the creator of Kottayam’s renowned Pallikoodam School.
