Core Values of Democracy Under Threat: Analysis of the Sanction of Prosecution Against Author Arundhati Roy Under UAPA in 2010 Case
Arundhati Roy, a renowned author, awardee of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction (1998) for her outstanding debut novel The God of Small Things and the one who was awarded the Lannan Cultural Freedom Award in 2002, the Sydney Peace Prize in 2004, and the Sahitya Akademi Award from the Indian Academy of Letters in 2006 in recognition of her outspoken advocacy of human rights is in news these days as she is to face the prosecution under Section 13 of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 (UAPA) for allegedly delivering ‘provocative speeches in public’ in connection with a 2010 case. Here is a brief account of the controversy and its overall effect on the democratic values of the nation.