{"id":11097,"date":"2019-11-14T19:57:28","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T10:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2019\/nov\/14\/rushdie-atwood-restore-citizenship-critic-modi"},"modified":"2019-11-14T19:57:28","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T10:57:28","slug":"rushdie-and-atwood-join-calls-to-restore-citizenship-to-critic-of-modi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11097","title":{"rendered":"Rushdie and Atwood join calls to restore citizenship to critic of Modi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 250 authors urge India\u2019s prime minister to reinstate overseas citizenship of British journalist Aatish Taseer <\/p>\n<p>Salman Rushdie, Orhan Pamuk and Margaret Atwood are among more than 250 authors calling on India\u2019s prime minister, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/narendra-modi\">Narendra Modi<\/a>, to review the decision to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/08\/india-strips-citizenship-journalist-aatish-taseer-criticised-modi-regime\">strip British Indian writer Aatish Taseer of his Indian citizenship<\/a>, saying that the move \u201cflies in the face of India\u2019s traditions of free and open debate\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Taseer, who was born in the UK but grew up in India, is a novelist, memoirist and journalist. In May, he wrote a cover story for Time magazine under the headline \u201cIndia\u2019s divider in chief\u201d, which was highly critical of Modi\u2019s government. Last week, Taseer was stripped of his overseas citizenship of India (OCI) status, meaning he may be blacklisted and thus never able to return to the country, according to the free-speech organisation PEN.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2019\/nov\/14\/rushdie-atwood-restore-citizenship-critic-modi\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 250 authors urge India\u2019s prime minister to reinstate overseas citizenship of British journalist Aatish Taseer Salman Rushdie, Orhan Pamuk and Margaret Atwood are among more than 250 authors calling on India\u2019s prime minister, Narendra Modi, to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":691,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[511,71,62,433,924,925,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-culture","category-india","category-narendra-modi","category-pen","category-salman-rushdie","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/691"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11100,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11097\/revisions\/11100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}