Celebrated novelist Arundhati Roy faces prosecution in India – for a speech she gave in 2010
- Written by Priya Chacko, Senior Lecturer in International Politics, University of Adelaide
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.
They were speaking at a 2010 Delhi conference, the same year right-wing activist Sushil Pandit filed the complaint...