Arundhati Roy rejects Indian literary award
SRINAGAR: Noted Indian author and Booker prize-winner Arundhati Roy has refused to accept this year’s Sahitya Akademi Award for her book, “The Algebra of Infinite Justice”, which is critical of the Indian control of Kashmir, Nagaland and Manipur and the rising toll of dead and disappeared in these areas. According to KMS, in a letter addressed to the Chairman of Sahitya Akademi, she said, “Even as we call ourselves a democracy, Indian forces control and administer Kashmir, Manipur and Nagaland and the numbers of the dead and disappeared continue to mount”. Arundhati Roy’s ‘The Algebra of Infinite Justice’, written between 1998 and 2001, consists of essays, deeply critical of some of the major policies of Indian governments. online
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