Tag: Arundhati Roy on Kashmir

By Riyaz ul Khaliq During the two-month clampdown by the Indian government, every single native of Jammu and Kashmir “who has a voice at all” has been put behind bars, lamented famed Indian novelist and social activist Arundhati Roy. “Every single person who has a voice at all has been arrested. And that, as you say, includes all the former chief ministers, people who have been carrying India’s water for the last 70 years. Everybody is in jail,” Roy told the U.S.-based website The Intercept, speaking of the Jammu and Kashmir...