India writer UR Ananthamurthy threatened for Modi criticism

"Award-winning Indian writer UR Ananthamurthy has told the BBC that he has been receiving threatening calls for his comments criticising India's PM-elect Narendra Modi. A few months ago, the Kannada language writer had said that he would leave the country if Mr Modi became India's PM. He later retracted his statement saying he had made it out of frustration. After Mr Modi's landslide victory in the election results, a Hindu hardline group said he should go to Pakistan. The group, which calls itself NaMo Brigade, said it had sent the writer a one-way ticket to Karachi for 17 May - a day after the vote count. NaMo is short for Narendra Modi. Although Mr Ananthamurthy denied receiving the ticket, he said he had received "calls at odd hours threatening me and asking me why don't you take the air ticket and go away to Pakistan"..."