NEW DELHI (AP) β Booker Prize-winning novelist Arundhati Roy has joined the growing number of writers, filmmakers, scientists and historians voicing alarm over what they describe as a climate of religious intolerance and violence in India.
Roy, most famous for her 1997 novel “The God of Small Things,” said in a sharply worded editorial Thursday in The Indian Express that millions of minorities “are being forced to live in terror, unsure of when and from where the assault will come.”
Already dozens of writers have returned awards to the country’s top literary institution over disappointment that the Sahitya Academi has not condemned the recent killings of atheist activists or Muslims rumored to have slaughtered cows or eaten cow meat.
Many among India’s majority Hindu population consider cows sacred.
