Prize-winning Indian novelist Arundhati Roy to be prosecuted over 2010 Kashmir speech under anti-terror law: media

Indian authorities have allowed the prosecution of Booker Prize-winning novelist Arundhati Roy under a stringent anti-terror law for a 2010 speech about Indian-occupied Kashmir (IoK), according to media outlet India Today.

Roy, 61, is one of India’s most famous living authors, but her writing and activism, including her trenchant criticism of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government, have made her a polarising figure at home.

A criminal complaint accusing her and several others...