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Key Aide Of Nitish Kumar Livid Over Remarks Against Ashoka The Great
A key aide of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday inveighed against Sahitya Akademi Award winner Daya Prasad Sinha for likening Ashoka the Great to Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb.
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Sahitya Akademi Announces Winners Of Yuva Puraskar, Bal Sahitya Puraskar 2021
The Sahitya Akademi on Thursday announced a list of 22 winners each of the Yuva Puraskar and the Bal Sahitya Puraskar for 2021.
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Sahitya Akademi Awardee G Nanjundan Found Dead At His House In Bengaluru
Sahitya Akademi award winner G Nanjundan was found dead at his residence in Bengaluru today, the police said. The body, found in a decomposed state, has been sent for postmortem, they said.
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Shashi Tharoor Among Writers To Receive Sahitya Akademi Award 2019
Shashi Tharoor and playwright Nand Kishore Acharya are among 23 writers who will be awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award 2019. The National Academy of Letters announced the names of the winners on Wednesday.
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"Not As Happy As I Should Be": Novelist Jayashree Goswami Mahanta on Sahitya Akademi Award
Novelist and former AGP Rajya Sabha member Jayashree Goswami Mahanta on Wednesday said "I am not as happy as I should be" with the news of winning the Sahitya Akademi award and promised to distribute the prize money among the families of those killed during anti-citizenship law protests in Assam.
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MM Kalburgi's Wife Wants SIT Probe, Supreme Court's Notice To Centre, State
Professor Kalburgi's wife wants a Special Investigation Team to probe the murder of her husband. The Sahitya Akademi award winner writer and rationalist's wife Uma Devi has petitioned the Supreme Court seeking a special probe. The top court has issued a notice to Karnataka, Centre and the National Investigative Agency on setting up a Special Invest...
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Tolerance Debate: Actor Anupam Kher to Lead 'March For India'
Veteran actor Anupam Kher on Friday requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to be an audience to share with him the thoughts of "millions of Indians".
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Those Returning Awards are Spreading 'Ideological Terrorism': Raghubar Das
Hitting out at Sahitya Akademi award winners who returned their laurels, Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das has accused them of spreading "ideological terrorism" in the country.
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Writers Urge Sahitya Akademi to Reinvent Itself
Continuing their protest against what they call growing intolerance, prominent writers including those who had returned their Sahitya Akademi awards today wrote to the National Academy of Letters urging it reinvent itself.
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Jaitley's Comments on Akademi Row Show Government is Rattled: Nayantara Sahgal
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's comments on writers, historians, scientists and filmmakers returning awards to protest the climate of intolerance in the country show that the Narendra Modi government is rattled by the public outcry, noted writer Nayantara Sahgal said today.
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'Never Witnessed Such Intolerance,' Says Gulzar Backing Writers' Protest
Noted lyricist and filmmaker Gulzar has come out in support of writers and poet returning their Sahitya Akademi awards in protest of the growing religious intolerance in the country, saying this is the only way a writer can register protest.
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Writers Hold Protest March in Delhi Ahead of Crucial Sahitya Akademi Meeting
With black gags and arm bands, writers and their supporters held a solidarity march in New Delhi ahead of the Sahitya Akademi emergency meeting to discuss the returning of awards by eminent authors in protest against "rising intolerance" in the backdrop MM Kalburgi's killing.
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Urdu Poet Munawwar Rana to Meet PM Modi Soon Over Writers Returning Awards
Urdu poet Munawwar Rana, who has returned his Sahitya Akademi award over growing intolerance in the country, would meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi soon.
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Will Return Award if Akademi Doesn't Defend Free Speech: Anita Desai
Noted novelist Anita Desai has said she will return her Sahitya Award if the Akademi does not make it clear that it is not a government body but an independent one that exists to defend free speech and the right to question and dissent.
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With Return of Prize, India's Literary Stars Protest Rising Intolerance
Prominent writers in India are collectively protesting what they consider an increase in hostility and intolerance, which they argue has been allowed to fester under the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, by returning a prestigious literary award.
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Key Aide Of Nitish Kumar Livid Over Remarks Against Ashoka The Great
A key aide of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday inveighed against Sahitya Akademi Award winner Daya Prasad Sinha for likening Ashoka the Great to Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb.
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Sahitya Akademi Announces Winners Of Yuva Puraskar, Bal Sahitya Puraskar 2021
The Sahitya Akademi on Thursday announced a list of 22 winners each of the Yuva Puraskar and the Bal Sahitya Puraskar for 2021.
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Sahitya Akademi Awardee G Nanjundan Found Dead At His House In Bengaluru
Sahitya Akademi award winner G Nanjundan was found dead at his residence in Bengaluru today, the police said. The body, found in a decomposed state, has been sent for postmortem, they said.
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Shashi Tharoor Among Writers To Receive Sahitya Akademi Award 2019
Shashi Tharoor and playwright Nand Kishore Acharya are among 23 writers who will be awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award 2019. The National Academy of Letters announced the names of the winners on Wednesday.
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"Not As Happy As I Should Be": Novelist Jayashree Goswami Mahanta on Sahitya Akademi Award
Novelist and former AGP Rajya Sabha member Jayashree Goswami Mahanta on Wednesday said "I am not as happy as I should be" with the news of winning the Sahitya Akademi award and promised to distribute the prize money among the families of those killed during anti-citizenship law protests in Assam.
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MM Kalburgi's Wife Wants SIT Probe, Supreme Court's Notice To Centre, State
Professor Kalburgi's wife wants a Special Investigation Team to probe the murder of her husband. The Sahitya Akademi award winner writer and rationalist's wife Uma Devi has petitioned the Supreme Court seeking a special probe. The top court has issued a notice to Karnataka, Centre and the National Investigative Agency on setting up a Special Invest...
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Tolerance Debate: Actor Anupam Kher to Lead 'March For India'
Veteran actor Anupam Kher on Friday requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to be an audience to share with him the thoughts of "millions of Indians".
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Those Returning Awards are Spreading 'Ideological Terrorism': Raghubar Das
Hitting out at Sahitya Akademi award winners who returned their laurels, Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das has accused them of spreading "ideological terrorism" in the country.
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Writers Urge Sahitya Akademi to Reinvent Itself
Continuing their protest against what they call growing intolerance, prominent writers including those who had returned their Sahitya Akademi awards today wrote to the National Academy of Letters urging it reinvent itself.
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Jaitley's Comments on Akademi Row Show Government is Rattled: Nayantara Sahgal
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's comments on writers, historians, scientists and filmmakers returning awards to protest the climate of intolerance in the country show that the Narendra Modi government is rattled by the public outcry, noted writer Nayantara Sahgal said today.
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'Never Witnessed Such Intolerance,' Says Gulzar Backing Writers' Protest
Noted lyricist and filmmaker Gulzar has come out in support of writers and poet returning their Sahitya Akademi awards in protest of the growing religious intolerance in the country, saying this is the only way a writer can register protest.
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Writers Hold Protest March in Delhi Ahead of Crucial Sahitya Akademi Meeting
With black gags and arm bands, writers and their supporters held a solidarity march in New Delhi ahead of the Sahitya Akademi emergency meeting to discuss the returning of awards by eminent authors in protest against "rising intolerance" in the backdrop MM Kalburgi's killing.
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Urdu Poet Munawwar Rana to Meet PM Modi Soon Over Writers Returning Awards
Urdu poet Munawwar Rana, who has returned his Sahitya Akademi award over growing intolerance in the country, would meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi soon.
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Will Return Award if Akademi Doesn't Defend Free Speech: Anita Desai
Noted novelist Anita Desai has said she will return her Sahitya Award if the Akademi does not make it clear that it is not a government body but an independent one that exists to defend free speech and the right to question and dissent.
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With Return of Prize, India's Literary Stars Protest Rising Intolerance
Prominent writers in India are collectively protesting what they consider an increase in hostility and intolerance, which they argue has been allowed to fester under the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, by returning a prestigious literary award.
