{"id":32302,"date":"2021-05-20T21:53:37","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T12:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2021\/may\/20\/indian-authors-speak-out-over-plan-to-reissue-narendra-modi-exam-book"},"modified":"2021-05-20T21:53:37","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T12:53:37","slug":"indian-authors-speak-out-over-plan-to-reissue-narendra-modi-exam-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32302","title":{"rendered":"Indian authors speak out over plan to reissue Narendra Modi exam book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pankaj Mishra and Arundhati Roy attack Penguin Random House India for putting out book by a prime minister they say has mishandled Covid and persecuted writers<\/p>\n<p>Leading Indian authors Pankaj Mishra and Arundhati Roy have spoken out against Penguin Random House India\u2019s decision to publish and promote a book by Narendra Modi during the country\u2019s coronavirus crisis, with Mishra accusing PRH India of \u201cenlist[ing] in a flailing politician\u2019s propaganda campaign\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/blog\/2021\/may\/ethical-responsibilities\">In a letter published in the London Review of Books<\/a> blog, Mishra wrote to the chief executive of PRH India, Gaurav Shrinagesh, after the publisher announced it would be reissuing Modi\u2019s book Exam Warriors while, in Mishra\u2019s words, \u201csmoke from mass funeral pyres rose across India\u201d. India suffered a world record one-day death toll from Covid-19 on Wednesday \u2013 4,529 \u2013 with the overall figure believed to be much higher than the official death toll of 283,248.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2021\/may\/20\/indian-authors-speak-out-over-plan-to-reissue-narendra-modi-exam-book\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pankaj Mishra and Arundhati Roy attack Penguin Random House India for putting out book by a prime minister they say has mishandled Covid and persecuted writersLeading Indian authors Pankaj Mishra and Arundhati Roy have spoken out against Penguin Random&#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":[2186,511,1066,71,62,433,1642,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arundhati-roy","category-books","category-coronavirus","category-culture","category-india","category-narendra-modi","category-publishing","category-south-and-central-asia","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\/32302","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=32302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32303,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32302\/revisions\/32303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}