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Jamal Barnes, Lecturer, Criminology, Edith Cowan University

The prosecution of Arundhati Roy is business as usual for the Modi government – and bad news for freedom of expression in India

Arundhati Roy. Vikramjit Kakati, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

Earlier this month, Narendra Modi was elected India’s prime minister for the third consecutive time.

Despite being only the second Indian prime minister to win three elections in a row, the election saw Modi lose his parliamentary majority. After winning 303 seats in 2019, Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party dropped to 240 seats, forcing it to form a coalition with other political parties to govern.

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