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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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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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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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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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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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Poet Jayanta Mahapatra Wishes to Return His Padma Shri Award
Internationally acclaimed poet and litterateur, Jayanta Mahapatra today expressed his desire to return the Padma Shri award as a mark of dissent against the "growing moral asymmetry" seen in the country.
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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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Learn to Fight Government Politically, Says Filmmaker Shyam Benegal
Filmmaker Shyam Benegal is against the recent trend of filmmakers and writers returning National awards as a protest against the growing intolerance in the country. He believes it's not a healthy trend.
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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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Challenge PM Openly, But Don't Hurt India: Venkaiah Naidu to Writers
Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu on Friday said intellectuals complaining of "growing intolerance" can openly challenge Prime Minister Narendra Modi on any policy, but they should desist from spreading "misinformation" that hurts the country.
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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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Writer Arundhati Roy Returns National Award
Writer Arundhati Roy has said that she feels "proud" to return her national award as part of the political movement against "ideological visciousness" and threats to free speech.
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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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"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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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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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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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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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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Poet Jayanta Mahapatra Wishes to Return His Padma Shri Award
Internationally acclaimed poet and litterateur, Jayanta Mahapatra today expressed his desire to return the Padma Shri award as a mark of dissent against the "growing moral asymmetry" seen in the country.
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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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Learn to Fight Government Politically, Says Filmmaker Shyam Benegal
Filmmaker Shyam Benegal is against the recent trend of filmmakers and writers returning National awards as a protest against the growing intolerance in the country. He believes it's not a healthy trend.
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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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Challenge PM Openly, But Don't Hurt India: Venkaiah Naidu to Writers
Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu on Friday said intellectuals complaining of "growing intolerance" can openly challenge Prime Minister Narendra Modi on any policy, but they should desist from spreading "misinformation" that hurts the country.
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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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Writer Arundhati Roy Returns National Award
Writer Arundhati Roy has said that she feels "proud" to return her national award as part of the political movement against "ideological visciousness" and threats to free speech.
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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.
