Cusack backs CJP protests, signals Hollywood support
Hollywood actor John Cusack voiced support for India's student protests over NEET paper leaks and police action, sharing Arundhati Roy's critique of authorities and praising the demonstrators. He has a history of backing Indian student protests, including the Jamia Millia Islamia crackdown in 2019 and campaigns against the Citizenship Amendment Act.
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About Arundhati Roy
Suzanna Arundhati Roy is an Indian author best known for her novel The God of Small Things (1997), which won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 and became the biggest-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author. She is also a political activist involved in human rights and environmental causes. She was the winner of the 2024 PEN Pinter Prize, given by English PEN, and she named imprisoned British-Egyptian writer and activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah as the "Writer of Courage" with whom she chose to share the award.
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- novelist, writer, screenwriter, essayist
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- November 24, 1961, November 23, 1961, September 24, 1961