Authorities threaten people with prison time for selling or owning works by authors like Booker winner Arundhati Roy and historians Victoria Schofield

Among the 25 banned books is one by Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy, one of India’s most famous living authors.

OCCUPIED SRINAGAR: Police in IIOJK raided bookshops on Thursday after authorities banned 25 books, including one by Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy, saying the titles “excite secessionism” in the contested Muslim-majority region.

Indian authorities have banned 25 books in Kashmir, accusing them of promoting a "false narrative" and "secessionism."

Srinagar: Indian authorities in Kashmir have banned 25 books, including a work by Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy, saying the titles “excite secessionism” in the region. The government order accuses the writers of propagating “false narratives” about Kashmir,