The prosecution of Arundhati Roy is business as usual for the Modi government – and bad news for freedom of expression in India
- Written by: Jamal Barnes, Lecturer, Criminology, Edith Cowan University
Arundhati Roy.Vikramjit Kakati, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SAEarlier this month, Narendra Modi was elected India’s prime minister for the third consecutive time.
Despite being only the second Indian prime minister to win three elections in a row, the election saw Modi lose his parliamentary majority. After winning 303 seats in 2019,...