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

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

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India: author Arundhati Roy to be prosecuted over 2010 Kashmir remarks

Official from ruling BJP party allows action against Booker winner under controversial anti-terrorism law

The Guardian - UK

Booker-winning author Arundhati Roy to be prosecuted under anti-terror laws in India

Roy faces charges over a speech she gave about Kashmir in 2010

The Independent UK

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The Architecture of Modern Empire by Arundhati Roy review – two decades of fire

Arundhati Roy is as stringent in her criticism of India’s social injustices as she is of the self-absorbed west in this wide-ranging collection of interviews

The Guardian - UK

Delhi L-G grants nod to prosecute Arundhati Roy in UAPA case

Delhi Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena has granted sanction to prosecute author Arundhati Roy under the UAPA for her alleged provocative speech at an event in 2010, according to PTI.

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‘He likes scaring people’: how Modi’s right-hand man, Amit Shah, runs India

The long read: For 40 years, Amit Shah has been at Narendra Modi’s side – his confidant, consigliere and enforcer. Today he is India’s second-most powerful man, and he is reshaping the country in radical ways

The Guardian - UK

Murder on WhatsApp | Review of ‘Chronicle of an Hour and a Half’ by Saharu Nusaiba Kannanari

"Chronicle of an Hour and a Half" by Saharu Nusaiba Kannanari explores the dark side of mob mentality in rural Kerala.

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Morning Digest | Sweden officially joins NATO; Rahul Gandhi likely to seek re-election from Wayanad, and more

The Hindu Morning Digest gives a select list of stories to start the day. Read the top news today on March 08, 2024

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India sending unemployed poor to Israel: Arundhati Roy

Arundhati Roy reveals India sending unemployed to Israel amid conflict, urging action for Gaza, as Indians for Palestine demand change.

The Hindu

Country faces serious threat from inside: Arundhati Roy

The people of the country are facing a serious threat, according to writer-activist Arundhati Roy. She was speaking after receiving the third P.Govinda Pillai memorial national award instituted by the PG Samskrithi Kendram to perpetuate the memory of Marxist ideologue P. Govinda Pillai.

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Journalists in Gaza deserve protection — not death

Fifty-three journalists have been killed in the Middle East since Oct. 7, including 46 Palestinians, four Israelis and three Lebanese, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.

Chicago Sun-Times

KLF seventh edition from January 11

KLF 2024, held on Kozhikode beach, will feature Nobel laureates, Booker Prize winners, literary luminaries, media personalities, and celebrities. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan will inaugurate the event, with Turkey as guest country of honour. Speakers include Arundhati Roy, Mallika Sarabhai, Shashi Tharoor, Piyush Pandey, and more. Concerts by T.M. Krishna,…

The Hindu

Geopolitical chess game: Why India has no interest in serving as a western pawn

Canada’s deepening divide with India following its accusation that the Indian government was responsible for the murder of Canadian citizen Hardeep Singh Nijjar has revealed a cynical truth: the West’s interest in democracy and rules-based international order is largely empty rhetoric.

The Conversation

Arundhati Roy is being hounded by the Indian state. This is a test case for its democracy

That the author could be prosecuted for comments made 13 years ago is absurd – but also a deadly threat to freedom of speech, asks poet Meena Kandasamy

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UAPA, financial regulations being misused to target scribes, activists, say international rights groups

The 12 human rights groups charged Indian authorities with carrying out an “escalating crackdown” on media and civil society since the Narendra Modi-led government came to power in 2014

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Celebrated novelist Arundhati Roy faces prosecution in India – for a speech she gave in 2010

Booker Prize-winning writer Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things, has been charged, along with retired law professor Sheikh Showkat Hussain, for allegedly seditious comments supporting the separation of Kashmir from India.

The Hindu

Vendetta without limit: On the resurrection of an old case against Arundhati Roy

The revival of a 13-year-old case betrays intolerance and follows a pattern of vendetta against the state’s perceived civil society antagonists and outspoken critics

The Hindu

Regime of Delhi LG, his masters has no place for tolerance: Chidambaram on approval to prosecute Arundhati Roy

P. Chidambaram slams Delhi LG's move to prosecute Arundhati Roy in 2010 case, saying there's no justification for it. He stands by free speech & against colonial law of sedition.

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Al Jazeera

Indian author Arundhati Roy may face prosecution for 2010 speech on Kashmir

Delhi gov’t approves for case to proceed before courts for speech allegedly advocating Kashmir’s secession from India.

The Hindu

Delhi LG approves prosecution of Arundhati Roy, Kashmir professor in 2010 ‘provocative speeches’ case

LG Saxena grants sanction to prosecute Arundhati Roy and former Kashmiri professor for alleged provocative speeches in 2010. FIR registered following Court of Metropolitan Magistrate orders. Offences include promoting enmity, imputations prejudicial to national-integration, and public mischief. Complaint filed by social activist from Kashmir for Separation of Kashmir from India.

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NewsClick raids | Media bodies write to CJI, call for norms on interrogation of journalists

Dozens of media orgs urge CJI to intervene in raids against NewsClick. Protestors demand accountability of State agencies & officers who overstep the law. Letter to CJI requests norms to discourage seizure of journalists’ phones & laptops & guidelines for interrogation. #PressFreedom

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Advocate General R. Shunmugasundaram refuses consent to initiate criminal contempt proceedings against DMK leader R.S. Bharathi

AG refuses to grant consent to initiate criminal contempt proceedings against DMK's R.S. Bharathi for criticizing HC judge's suo motu revision. AG cites SC's verdicts in Baradakanta Mishra & Arundhati Roy cases, stating fair criticism of judicial act not contempt.

Al Jazeera

Arundhati Roy: ‘Biden, Macron know what’s going on in India but won’t talk’

From her New Delhi home, acclaimed Indian writer and activist talks about G20 summit and state of India’s minorities.

The Hindu

Cultural gathering in Kozhikode to seek release of ‘GROW’ Vasu

Activists, artists, singers to gather at Pottammal to demand that the government drop case against Vasu when he is produced in court on Friday. Writers Arundhati Roy and K.G. Sankarapillai seek his release.

The Hindu

Indian women’s blind football team set to leave for IBSA World Games

The Indian women’s blind football team is all set to participate in the eight-team IBSA World Games set to get under way at the University of Birmingham from August 14 to 21. When India takes on Austria in the first match on August 14, history will be made as an…

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