Mary Roy lay in a temperature-controlled coffin with a glass top in the dining room of her house in Kottayam in September 2022. Press photographers and a group of mourners gathered around her body. Many knew her as the founder of a progressive school and as a feminist who had challenged inheritance law, winning equal rights for Christian women in the state of Kerala after a protracted, decades-long battle in the Supreme Court of India. Arundhati Roy knew her as a tormentor and abuser, a “local