More on Arundhati's Bengali father

[Naeem Mohaiemen]

Roy, the daughter of a Hindu coffee plantation owner
and
a Christian teacher, was born in Kerala, southern
India,
and has experienced first-hand the problems of mixed
marriages in conventional middle-class India. Her
mother, Mary Roy, later left her father as he was
prone
to drunkenness, and raised her and her brother alone
in
the village of Ayemenem..
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It appears, based on this para, that her bengali father had
little/nothing to do with Roy's upbringing/education and in particular
literary education.

It seems that it is correct that there is little of the Bengali in her.

I stand corrected. Kudos to Arundhati for her award.

--Naeem