Social Worker Mary Roy Dies At 89
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Educationist and social worker Mary Roy died at 89Kottayam: 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. She died at her home due to age-related ailments, they said.Roy, mother of writer and Man Booker Prize Winner Arundhati Roy and Lalith Roy, is also the founder of Pallikoodam school.To enable people to pay tribute, her body will be kept at her home in Pallikoodam campus from 3 pm to 9 pm on Thursday and on September 2 from 7 am to noon in the MR Block, Pallikoodam campus, the family said. Her funeral will be in the afternoon.It was in the mid-1980, Roy had launched a legal battle in the Supreme Court seeking gender equality for women in ...