Editor’s Note: Arundhati Roy is the author of “The God of Small Things,” which won the Booker Prize in 1997 and “The Ministry of Utmost Happiness,” which was long-listed for the Man ...

Last year, as Arundhati Roy was awarded a European Essay Prize in Switzerland, she warned that Modi’s Hindu nationalist rhetoric and policies were spreading throughout India society.

Tollywood and Kollywood blockbuster Arundhati is to be remade in Hindi. Bollywood has taken up the mythological adventure film after fellow Kollywood hit Ghajini proved a huge success.