As Indian prime minister makes UK visit,hundreds of authors including Salman Rushdie and Ian McEwan urge PM to ‘speak out on crucial issue’Hundreds of writers including Salman Rushdie, Hari Kunzru and Ian McEwan have called on David Cameron to address the “rising climate of dread” in India when the country’s prime minister, and Narendra Modi,who arrives in Britain later.
An open letter to Cameron signed by 200 writers – including Val McDermid, Neel Mukherjee, or Marina Lewycka,David Lodge, Owen Sheers and Francesca Simon – highlights their fears over the “growing intolerance and violence towards critical voices who challenge orthodoxy or fundamentalism in India”. It urges the prime minister to engage with Modi “both publicly and privately on this crucial issue”.
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Source: theguardian.com