Modi must speak on lynching, says AAP
The AAP leader’s reference was to the September 28 killing of Akhlaq by a mob at Dadri in Uttar Pradesh. Ghaziabad, Oct 12 : AAP leader Kumar Vishwas on Monday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to...
View ArticleAssam’s Homen Borgohain to return Sahitya Akademi award
Stating his reasons for taking such a step, he wrote: “However, my symbolic protest to return the Sahitya Akademi award is not only against the Dadri killing but against the growing fascist tendency in...
View ArticleNow, Bengali poet returns Sahitya Akademi award
Mandakranta Sen returned her Sahitya Akademi Young Writers Special Award to protest. Kolkata, Oct 14 : Noted Bengali poet Mandakranta Sen on Wednesday returned her Sahitya Akademi Young Writers Special...
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Led by Sahgal, Indian writers renounce awards; script dissent against...
Noted writer Nayantara Sahgal’s decision last week to return her Sahitya Akademi award over the public lynching in Dadri has triggered a wave of similar reactions from other awardees across the country...
View ArticleJaipur-based writer returns Sahitya Akademi award
Sahitya Akademi Award Jaipur, Oct 15 : Well-known Jaipur-based Rajasthani and Hindi writer Anand Bhardwaj has returned his Sahitya Akademi award in protest against “rising religious intolerance and...
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Writers as refuseniks – BJP’s blind spot
BJP didn’t seem to know how to counter this curious form of protest, which has an element of Gandhian renunciation about it By Amulya Ganguli, Oct 18: After being flummoxed for a few days by the...
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Sahitya Akademi must ensure moral policing is curbed: writer
Mauzo said this in a letter to Sahitya Akademi president V.P. Tiwari while calling for a strong condemnation of Kannada writer M.M. Kalburgi’s murder in August. Panaji, Oct 19 : The Sahitya Akademi...
View ArticleWriters protest in Delhi against increasing intolerance
Writers from across the country gathered at Shri Ram Centre near Mandi House, Delhi and marched towards Sahitya Akademi in the capital, wearing black ribbons on their heads as a sign of protest. New...
View ArticleAccepting Sahitya Akademi award with mixed feelings: K.R. Meera
By Preetha Nair, New Delhi, Dec 18 : Though it’s an honour, it’s painful to accept a Sahitya Akademi award at a time when country is witnessing increasing attacks on the right to dissent, said noted...
View ArticleDelhi HC notice on plea on Akademi awards
A division bench of Chief Justice G. Rohini and Jayant Nath sought responses from the ministry of tourism and culture and the Sahitya Akademi by February 15. New Delhi, Dec 23 : The Delhi High Court on...
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