{"id":59120,"date":"2023-10-11T02:50:14","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T17:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2023\/oct\/10\/author-arundhati-roy-may-face-prosecution-india-speech"},"modified":"2023-10-11T02:50:14","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T17:50:14","slug":"author-arundhati-roy-may-face-prosecution-in-india-over-2010-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59120","title":{"rendered":"Author Arundhati Roy may face prosecution in India over 2010 speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top official sanctions case against Booker prize-winning novelist for comments about Kashmir <\/p>\n<p>The Booker prize-winning Indian novelist Arundhati Roy could be prosecuted for a 2010 speech about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/kashmir\">Kashmir<\/a> after a top official signed off on the move, according to reports in India.<\/p>\n<p>Roy, 61, is one of India\u2019s most famous living authors but her writing and activism, including her criticism of the prime minister Narendra Modi\u2019s government, have made her a polarising figure in the country.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2023\/oct\/10\/author-arundhati-roy-may-face-prosecution-india-speech\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top official sanctions case against Booker prize-winning novelist for comments about Kashmir The Booker prize-winning Indian novelist Arundhati Roy could be prosecuted for a 2010 speech about Kashmir after a top official signed off on the move, accordi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2356,"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":[2186,511,62,432,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arundhati-roy","category-books","category-india","category-kashmir","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\/59120","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\/2356"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59121,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59120\/revisions\/59121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}