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Actors Go On Strike In New Blow To Struggling Hollywood Studios
For the first time in six decades, Hollywood writers and actors are on strike at the same time - a cataclysm for hundreds of thousands of film and TV workers already idled by the entertainment industry's growing labor strife.
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"Insulted": Author Returns Award As Mamata Banerjee Gets Literary Honour
A Bengali writer and folk culture researcher on Tuesday returned an award given to her by the Paschimbanga Bangla Academy to protest against its decision to confer a special award on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
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'Beyond Borders,' Tweets Nandita Das As Pakistanis Protest Ban On Manto
Manto is based on Pakistani writer Saadat Hasan Manto, played by Nawazuddin Siddiqui onscreen
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Opinion: What Rahul Gandhi Has Won - And Risked - By Playing Hardball
While it hardly transacted business, the winter session of parliament marked a transition for the Congress and the opposition. As Sonia Gandhi took a backseat, due to health reasons or out of a desire to give her son more room, Rahul Gandhi became the Congress' prime mover and interface with other opposition parties. He attend parliament regularly,...
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Dalit Writer Amrutlal Makwana Returns Award After Una Incident
As a mark of protest against the thrashing of Dalit youths at Una, Dalit writer Amrutlal Makwana on Wednesday returned an award given by the Gujarat government.
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Nayantara Sahgal Rebuts Sahitya Akademi's Claim She Will Take Back Award
The Sahitya Akademi today claimed some of the writers, including Nayantara Sahgal, have agreed to take back the awards they had returned citing 'growing intolerance' in the country. Ms Sahgal, however, issued a separate statement strongly denying the academy's claim.
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Writer Ashok Vajpeyi To Return Degree To Protest 'Anti-Dalit' Attitude
Noted writer Ashok Vajpeyi today decided to return D Litt degree given to him by Hyderabad University in protest against the "anti-Dalit" attitude of authorities which has allegedly driven a Dalit student to commit suicide.
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Return of Awards Triggered a Debate on Intolerance: President Pranab Mukherjee
President Pranab Mukherjee has said that the return of awards by writers and intellectuals was "evidently spontaneous" and a way of protest that has triggered a nation-wide debate on the issue of intolerance, a release issued today by a group of intellectuals has claimed.
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Karnataka Reels Under Fallout From Tipu Sultan Controversy
Armed security outside a writer's house, protests on the street, calls for shutdowns - the fallout of the Karnataka government's decision to officially celebrate Tipu Sultan's birthday is still being felt in the state.
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Gandhiji Didn't Give Back British Degree: Kamal Haasan on Tolerance Debate
Coming out strongly against those returning their awards over the "intolerance" row, actor Kamal Haasan today wondered if such acts would achieve anything as he invoked Mahatma Gandhi saying even he did not give back his Law degree to protest against the Britishers.
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'Frustrated Feudalists' Trying to Disturb Communal Harmony: Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
Joining the BJP chorus against returning of awards by cultural personalities over rising intolerance, Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi today said some "frustrated feudalists" were spreading misinformation to disturb atmosphere of communal harmony and the pace of inclusive development.
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Noted Historian Shekhar Pathak to Return Padma Shri Over 'Intolerance'
Noted historian from Uttarakhand Shekhar Pathak today announced his decision to return Padma Shri in protest against what they call the "atmosphere of growing intolerance" in the country.
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Sikh Group in Delhi Protests Against Writers Returning Awards, Detained
Expressing anguish against the author community's silence over the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, a group of Sikh agitators today attempted to burn judicial commission reports and copies of a book to register their protest but were detained by the police.
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Sharmila Tagore Supports Protests by Intellectuals
Bollywood actor Sharmila Tagore on Sunday extended her support to a "resistance meet" by writers, thinkers, scientists and other public intellectuals against the "rising intolerance" in the country.
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Intellectuals Slam Government's 'Manufactured Rebellion' Tag
Sharply criticising the government's description of their protest as a "manufactured rebellion" intellectuals and artists of different persuasions came together on one stage today.
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Actors Go On Strike In New Blow To Struggling Hollywood Studios
For the first time in six decades, Hollywood writers and actors are on strike at the same time - a cataclysm for hundreds of thousands of film and TV workers already idled by the entertainment industry's growing labor strife.
-
"Insulted": Author Returns Award As Mamata Banerjee Gets Literary Honour
A Bengali writer and folk culture researcher on Tuesday returned an award given to her by the Paschimbanga Bangla Academy to protest against its decision to confer a special award on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
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'Beyond Borders,' Tweets Nandita Das As Pakistanis Protest Ban On Manto
Manto is based on Pakistani writer Saadat Hasan Manto, played by Nawazuddin Siddiqui onscreen
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Opinion: What Rahul Gandhi Has Won - And Risked - By Playing Hardball
While it hardly transacted business, the winter session of parliament marked a transition for the Congress and the opposition. As Sonia Gandhi took a backseat, due to health reasons or out of a desire to give her son more room, Rahul Gandhi became the Congress' prime mover and interface with other opposition parties. He attend parliament regularly,...
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Dalit Writer Amrutlal Makwana Returns Award After Una Incident
As a mark of protest against the thrashing of Dalit youths at Una, Dalit writer Amrutlal Makwana on Wednesday returned an award given by the Gujarat government.
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Nayantara Sahgal Rebuts Sahitya Akademi's Claim She Will Take Back Award
The Sahitya Akademi today claimed some of the writers, including Nayantara Sahgal, have agreed to take back the awards they had returned citing 'growing intolerance' in the country. Ms Sahgal, however, issued a separate statement strongly denying the academy's claim.
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Writer Ashok Vajpeyi To Return Degree To Protest 'Anti-Dalit' Attitude
Noted writer Ashok Vajpeyi today decided to return D Litt degree given to him by Hyderabad University in protest against the "anti-Dalit" attitude of authorities which has allegedly driven a Dalit student to commit suicide.
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Return of Awards Triggered a Debate on Intolerance: President Pranab Mukherjee
President Pranab Mukherjee has said that the return of awards by writers and intellectuals was "evidently spontaneous" and a way of protest that has triggered a nation-wide debate on the issue of intolerance, a release issued today by a group of intellectuals has claimed.
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Karnataka Reels Under Fallout From Tipu Sultan Controversy
Armed security outside a writer's house, protests on the street, calls for shutdowns - the fallout of the Karnataka government's decision to officially celebrate Tipu Sultan's birthday is still being felt in the state.
-
Gandhiji Didn't Give Back British Degree: Kamal Haasan on Tolerance Debate
Coming out strongly against those returning their awards over the "intolerance" row, actor Kamal Haasan today wondered if such acts would achieve anything as he invoked Mahatma Gandhi saying even he did not give back his Law degree to protest against the Britishers.
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'Frustrated Feudalists' Trying to Disturb Communal Harmony: Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
Joining the BJP chorus against returning of awards by cultural personalities over rising intolerance, Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi today said some "frustrated feudalists" were spreading misinformation to disturb atmosphere of communal harmony and the pace of inclusive development.
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Noted Historian Shekhar Pathak to Return Padma Shri Over 'Intolerance'
Noted historian from Uttarakhand Shekhar Pathak today announced his decision to return Padma Shri in protest against what they call the "atmosphere of growing intolerance" in the country.
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Sikh Group in Delhi Protests Against Writers Returning Awards, Detained
Expressing anguish against the author community's silence over the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, a group of Sikh agitators today attempted to burn judicial commission reports and copies of a book to register their protest but were detained by the police.
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Sharmila Tagore Supports Protests by Intellectuals
Bollywood actor Sharmila Tagore on Sunday extended her support to a "resistance meet" by writers, thinkers, scientists and other public intellectuals against the "rising intolerance" in the country.
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Intellectuals Slam Government's 'Manufactured Rebellion' Tag
Sharply criticising the government's description of their protest as a "manufactured rebellion" intellectuals and artists of different persuasions came together on one stage today.
