A couple of days after the police firing on tribals in Wayanad district of Kerala, the Booker Prize winner author, Arundhati Roy, lent her voice to their "struggle for land and justice". In a letter to the Kerala Chief Minister, A.K. Anthony the activist author noted that it was "the unforgivable and cynical delay in the delivering the land promised by the Government of Kerala to the poorest and the most needy people that has resulted in an unfortunate and needlessly brutal confrontation that would make any citizen of Kerala ashamed."