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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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Artiste Raghunandana Protests "Lynching", Rejects Sahitya Akademi Award
Eminent theatre personality from Karnataka, S Raghunandana on Thursday declined to accept the Sangeet Natak Akademi award in protest against incidents of "mob lynching and violence in the name of God and religion" and attempts to throttle voices of activists.
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Author Returns Award In Protest Over Jallikattu Issue
A writer and recipient of the Sahitya Akademi's Yuva Puraskar today returned his award, protesting against the lack of "positive" action from the Centre on the Jallikattu issue.
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My Protest Against Intolerance Continues, Says Writer Nayantara Sahgal
Noted writer Nayantara Sahgal, who has refused to accept her literary award back, today wrote to the Sahitya Akademi saying her protest against intolerance continues.
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Nayantara Sahgal Questions Timing Of Sahitya Akademi's Policy On Awards
Eminent writer Nayantara Sahgal on Saturday clarified that she was not taking back the award and questioned the timing of Sahitya Akademi's announcement of a policy not to take back awards.
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Poet Ashok Vajpeyi Refuses To Take Back Award, Says 'Intolerance Remain High'
Noted writer and poet Ashok Vajpeyi today refused to take back the Sahitya Akademi award that he had returned stating that "intolerance levels remain high" in the country.
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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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Court Seeks Centre's Reply On Framing Guidelines On Returning Awards
The Delhi High Court today sought a response from the Centre on a plea seeking a direction to frame guidelines that if Sahitya Akademi awardees return their awards, they should also return the prize money and royalties they may have earned through sale of their books.
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Writers Must Respect Their Awards: Sahitya Akademi President
Post the 'award-wapsi' campaign across the country during which a slew of writers returned their Sahitya Akademi awards to protest against "growing intolerance", Akademi President Vishwanath Prasad Tiwari today said the writers must respect the awards they win.
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Slamming 'Selective Outrage', Anupam Kher Leads March Against 'Intolerance' Protests
Actor Anupam Kher led a march to the Rashtrapati Bhavan today in New Delhi to protest against the voices being raised over "intolerance" in the country.
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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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'Secularism Under Threat Like Never Before,' Writer Nayantara Sahgal Says
Secularism in India is under threat like never before said noted writer Nayantara Sahgal who had recently returned her 'Sahitya Akademi' award in protest against mob lynching of man in Dadri over rumours that he had eaten cow meat.
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Tolerance Debate: Scientist Jayant Narlikar Says Returning Awards Not Appropriate
Renowned scientist Jayant Narlikar has disapproved Sahitya Akademi awardees returning their awards over the killing of Kannada writer and rationalist MM Kalburgi.
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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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PM Modi Should Rein in Party Members, Says Sarod Maestro Amjad Ali Khan Backing Writers
Adding his voice to growing protests over 'climate of intolerance', sarod maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan today said Prime Minister Narendra Modi must rein in errant party members, failing which peace could be under threat.
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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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Artiste Raghunandana Protests "Lynching", Rejects Sahitya Akademi Award
Eminent theatre personality from Karnataka, S Raghunandana on Thursday declined to accept the Sangeet Natak Akademi award in protest against incidents of "mob lynching and violence in the name of God and religion" and attempts to throttle voices of activists.
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Author Returns Award In Protest Over Jallikattu Issue
A writer and recipient of the Sahitya Akademi's Yuva Puraskar today returned his award, protesting against the lack of "positive" action from the Centre on the Jallikattu issue.
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My Protest Against Intolerance Continues, Says Writer Nayantara Sahgal
Noted writer Nayantara Sahgal, who has refused to accept her literary award back, today wrote to the Sahitya Akademi saying her protest against intolerance continues.
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Nayantara Sahgal Questions Timing Of Sahitya Akademi's Policy On Awards
Eminent writer Nayantara Sahgal on Saturday clarified that she was not taking back the award and questioned the timing of Sahitya Akademi's announcement of a policy not to take back awards.
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Poet Ashok Vajpeyi Refuses To Take Back Award, Says 'Intolerance Remain High'
Noted writer and poet Ashok Vajpeyi today refused to take back the Sahitya Akademi award that he had returned stating that "intolerance levels remain high" in the country.
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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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Court Seeks Centre's Reply On Framing Guidelines On Returning Awards
The Delhi High Court today sought a response from the Centre on a plea seeking a direction to frame guidelines that if Sahitya Akademi awardees return their awards, they should also return the prize money and royalties they may have earned through sale of their books.
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Writers Must Respect Their Awards: Sahitya Akademi President
Post the 'award-wapsi' campaign across the country during which a slew of writers returned their Sahitya Akademi awards to protest against "growing intolerance", Akademi President Vishwanath Prasad Tiwari today said the writers must respect the awards they win.
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Slamming 'Selective Outrage', Anupam Kher Leads March Against 'Intolerance' Protests
Actor Anupam Kher led a march to the Rashtrapati Bhavan today in New Delhi to protest against the voices being raised over "intolerance" in the country.
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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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'Secularism Under Threat Like Never Before,' Writer Nayantara Sahgal Says
Secularism in India is under threat like never before said noted writer Nayantara Sahgal who had recently returned her 'Sahitya Akademi' award in protest against mob lynching of man in Dadri over rumours that he had eaten cow meat.
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Tolerance Debate: Scientist Jayant Narlikar Says Returning Awards Not Appropriate
Renowned scientist Jayant Narlikar has disapproved Sahitya Akademi awardees returning their awards over the killing of Kannada writer and rationalist MM Kalburgi.
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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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PM Modi Should Rein in Party Members, Says Sarod Maestro Amjad Ali Khan Backing Writers
Adding his voice to growing protests over 'climate of intolerance', sarod maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan today said Prime Minister Narendra Modi must rein in errant party members, failing which peace could be under threat.
