A Narendra Modi victory would bode ill for India, say Rushdie and Kapoor
Salman Rushdie and Anish Kapoor among artists and academics to sign letter to the Guardian to express 'acute worry' at Hindu nationalist's expected victory in general election
Novelist Salman Rushdie and the sculptor Anish Kapoor are among signatories of a letter expressing 'acute worry' at the prospect of Narendra Modi (above) becoming the country's prime minister. Photograph: Divyakant Solanki/EPA
Jason Burke in Delhi
Thursday 10 April 2014
More than a dozen of India's most respected artists and academics - including the novelist Salman Rushdie and the sculptor Anish Kapoor - have written to the Guardian to express their "acute worry" at the prospect of Narendra Modi, the controversial Hindu nationalist politician, becoming the country's prime minister.
