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Arundhati Roy: Will Booker Prize-winner face jail for 14-year-old remark?
BBC News· 3 days agoWill one of India's most celebrated writers really face prosecution for things she said more than a...
Booker-winning author Arundhati Roy to be prosecuted under anti-terror laws in India
The Independent via Yahoo News· 5 days agoThe charges relate to an event in Delhi in 2010 on Kashmir where Roy and a former professor of...
Labour candidate shocked by ‘divisive’ Tory letter
BBC News· 2 days agoIn a letter addressed to "the British Pakistani/Kashmiri community in Dudley", Marco Longhi asked: "Will it be me, or Labour Party Parliamentary...
Arundhati Roy ‘anti-terror’ charge part of a push to silence Modi’s critics
The Conversation· 8 hours agoNarendra Modi recently won a third term as Indian prime minister after his BJP was party was returned to power, albeit as part of a minority government leading the National Democratic Alliance ...
India says novelist Arundhati Roy could be tried under antiterrorism law
Washington Post· 5 days agoThe Indian novelist Arundhati Roy could face serious charges over comments she made 14 years ago...
‘Vote against jail’: How two Modi critics won India election from prison
Al Jazeera· 6 days agoOn the afternoon of June 4, a crowd of several hundred young men gathered in front of a two-storey...
An ex-talent agent's journey from Kashmir to Hollywood (and 32 addresses along the way)
LA Times via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThe story of why Priyanka Mattoo quit her job as a Hollywood agent to pursue a career in writing has as many twists and turns as her literary debut, the memoir 'Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones.'
Wannabe Labour MP spoke at rally with terrorist sympathiser 'guests of honour'
Daily Express· 5 days agoLuton councillor Javeria Hussai spoke alongside men who have expressed “full support” for terrorist...
Katie Grimes Redefines Endurance Swimming at U.S. Olympic Trials
Sports Illustrated· 1 day agoWith a hand on a railing to steady her wobbly legs, Katie Grimes descended the stairs from the...
India should liberate its cities and create more states
The Economist· 2 hours agoIn his first decade in office Narendra Modi used centralisation to help modernise the country. Election results on June 4th cast doubts on that approach because Mr Modi’s party lost its majority ...
