She was educated at La Martiniere, Kolkata,[citation needed] attended St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi,[1] and graduated with a degree in literature in the 1990s.
In a review for DNA, Deepanjana Pal writes, "The world as imagined by Roy in this remarkable debut is filled with marvels, not the least of which is the feline social media network which makes Twitter look witheringly banal.
"[2] In a review for Mint, Sumana Roy writes the collection "documents the birth of a habit, of how the thing we casually call Indian English literature turned from curiosity to comfort—this is literary history told as observer and participant, and it is the latter that will make this book stand out among the many that I imagine being written many years later".
[16] With Anikendra Nath Sen and Devangshu Datta, she edited Patriots, Poets and Prisoners: Selections from Ramananda Chatterjee's the Modern Review, 1907-1947, which was released in 2016.
"[21] Roy also edited the 2021 anthology Our Freedoms, described in a review by Kalrav Joshi for The Wire as a book "about the politics of religion, caste and gender; the language of dissent; the limits of free expression; and challenges to constitutional democracy and secularism.