India

Since April 2022, around six prominent Kannada writers have been receiving threat letters via post. The warning messages in the letters are directed at 61 other writers and intellectuals, all of whom have been speaking against communalism, religious radicalism, and Hindutva. All the letters are handwritten, and according to the writers whom TNM spoke to, the handwriting seems similar and most were posted from central Karnataka’s Chitradurga district, a few from other places like Shivamogga and Tumakuru to districts across the state where the writers live.