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India: author Arundhati Roy to be prosecuted over 2010 Kashmir remarks

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Arundhati Roy has stood out as one of the most high-profile critics of Modi’s government, which has been accused of suppressing free speech. Photograph: TT News Agency/Alamy

Official from ruling BJP party allows action against Booker winner under controversial anti-terrorism law

Indian authorities have granted permission for the prosecution of the Booker prize-winning Indian novelist Arundhati Roy over comments she made about Kashmir at an event in 2010.

The top official in the Delhi administration, VK Saxena, gave the go-ahead for legal action against Roy, whose novel The God of Small Things won the Booker prize in 1997, under anti-terrorism legislation, alongside a former university professor, Sheikh Showkat Hussain.

The action against Roy and Hussain, a former professor at the Central University of Kashmir, is over allegedly making provocative speeches, the Press Trust of India reports, citing officials from Saxena’s office.

Saxena, who is serving as the lieutenant governor, is a politician from prime minister Narendra Modi’s ruling BJP.

While Roy, 62, is one of India’s most famous living authors, her activism and outspoken criticism of Modi’s government, including over laws targeting minorities, have made her a polarising figure in India.

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Two-thirds of voters say Britain has got worse under the Tories since 2010, poll finds

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Rishi Sunak says Oh fekk!
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LFF’s poll shows the sheer scale of dissatisfaction with the Tory government in a general election year.

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Exclusive polling carried out for Left Foot Forward by Savanta, of 2260 voters, found that 66% of voters believe that Britain is now in a worse state than in 2010, compared to just 14% who say things have got better.

While half of 18-24 year olds say that Britain has got worse since 2010, the figure rises to 72% among those aged 65 and over. 71% of those aged 55-64 say they also think things have got worse, as do 66% of those aged between 35-44.

When it comes to party affiliation, even a majority of Tory party voters, 61%, say that Britain is now worse than in 2010, along with 68% of Labour Party voters, 67% of Lib Dem voters and 70% of Green Party voters.

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