Sahitya Akademi
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17-year-old from Karnataka returns state Sahitya award
India | Apr 02, 2021, 04:13 PM ISTBengaluru: For 17 year-old Ria Vithasha, who has authored five novels, the killing of senior Kannada writer MM Kalburgi distressed her enough to take the decision to return her Karnataka Sahitya Award.
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Now, Bengali poet Mandakranta Sen returns Sahitya Akademi award
India | Oct 14, 2015, 06:58 PM ISTKolkata: Noted Bengali poet Mandakranta Sen on Wednesday returned her Sahitya Akademi Young Writers Special Award to protest against what she described as intolerance and communalism in the society.Sen received the award in 2004 for
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Now, Bengali poet returns Sahitya Akademi award
India | Oct 14, 2015, 03:08 PM ISTKolkata: Noted Bengali poet Mandakranta Sen on Wednesday returned her Sahitya Akademi Young Writers Special Award to protest against what she described as intolerance and communalism in the society.Sen received the award in 2004 for her body of
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Assam's Homen Borgohain decides to return Sahitya Akademi award
India | Oct 13, 2015, 06:50 PM ISTGuwahati: Joining the league of Sahitya Akademi awardees returning their awards in protest against growing intolerance in the country, Assam's litterateur and journalist Homen Borgohain has also decided to return the honour.Writing in a vernacular
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'Alarming Times for Free Expression in India': Salman Rushdie Backs Authors
India | Oct 13, 2015, 11:28 AM ISTNew Delhi/Chandigarh: Booker Prize winning author Salman Rushdie on Monday joined the growing chorus of protests by writers and poets against spread of "communal poison" and "rising intolerance" in the country even as 12 more
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Culture minister Mahesh Sharma suspects motives of writers returning awards
National | Oct 12, 2015, 09:14 PM ISTNew Delhi: As more writers and poets decided to return their Sahitya Akademi Awards in protest against "rising intolerance" in the country Union Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma on Monday gave a curious twist saying he
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Beef row: VHP dares the dissenting awardees to eat pork in Saudi Arabia
National | Oct 12, 2015, 10:01 AM ISTLucknow: Vishwa Hindu Parishad on Sunday challenged the authors who are returning their awards over beef controversy to go to Saudi Arabia and ask for pork there."If they do so and return alive, I myself
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Writers step up protest, 6 more return Akademi award
India | Oct 12, 2015, 07:38 AM ISTNew Delhi: Six more authors on Sunday have joined the ranks of litterateurs who have returned their Sahitya Akademi awards protesting against "rising intolerance" in the country.Among the six were five Punjabi writers — Akademi
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Gujarat-based writer Ganesh Devy returns Sahitya Akademi award
India | Oct 11, 2015, 11:27 PM ISTVadodara: After Nayantara Sahgal and Ashok Vajpeyi, city-based writer Ganesh Devy today returned his Sahitya Akademi Award to express solidarity with the writers, who have recently given up their awards to condemn the "shrinking space
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Writers step up protest, three more return Akademi award
India | Oct 11, 2015, 09:06 PM ISTNew Delhi/Chandigarh: Three eminent writers from Punjab today announced that they were returning their Sahitya Akademi awards, while Kannada writer Aravind Malagatti resigned from the body's general council, joining the growing protest by litterateurs over
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Nayantara Sahgal hits back at Sahitya Akademi chief
India | Oct 11, 2015, 08:46 PM ISTNew Delhi: Nayantara Sahgal, whose renunciation of the Sahitya Akademi Award triggered a wave of return of honours by eminent writers, today hit back at the Akademi chairperson Vishwanath Prasad Tiwari for his criticism of
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'Sahitya Akademi committed to freedom of expression, secular values'
India | Oct 11, 2015, 06:11 PM ISTNew Delhi: With the writers' protest growing louder, Sahitya Akademi has said it stands for freedom of expression and condemns attack on any writer or artist anywhere while asserting its commitment to the "core secular
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Kannada writer Dr Malgatti resigns from Sahitya Akademi
India | Oct 11, 2015, 06:12 PM ISTBengaluru: Joining the group of writers resigning their posts from the Sahitya Akademi, Kannada writer and researcher Dr Aravind Malagatti today resigned from its General Council, condemning its 'silence' over the killing of progressive thinker
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Kerala writer Sarah Joseph to return Sahitya Akademi award
India | Oct 10, 2015, 02:07 PM ISTThrissur(Kerala): Popular writer and Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award winner Sarah Joseph on Saturday said she would return the award to protest the lynching of a Muslim in Uttar Pradesh over rumours that he ate beef."The
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Incidents of intolerance not expected from our country: Rajya Sabha MP Javed Akhtar
National | Oct 08, 2015, 01:23 PM ISTNew Delhi : The recent incidents of intolerance are not expected to happen in India, says eminent poet-lyricist and Rajya Sabha MP Javed Akhtar."One does not expect this from our society at least. I don't
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Sahitya Akademi opens bookshop at Delhi Metro station
Lifestyle | Feb 08, 2015, 02:07 PM ISTNew Delhi: The Sahitya Akademi set up its first bookshop on the Delhi Metro rail circuit at the Kashmere Gate station, a statement said Sunday.A joint initiative by the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) and
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Sahitya Akademi chief Bengali writer Sunil Gangopadhyay dead
India | Oct 23, 2012, 03:03 PM ISTKolkata, Oct 23: Legendary Bengali writer and Sahitya Akademi President Sunil Gangopadhyay died here early Tuesday following a major cardiac arrest, family sources said.Equally acclaimed for his poems and novels in both West Bengal and