Award Wapsi: Principled Protest or Only Anti-Modi?

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Standing up for right to dissent, a number of writers have returned their Sahitya Akademi awards or quit the Akademi posts. On The Buck Stops Here, author Nayantara Sahgal faces off with senior journalist Swapan Dasgupta as we debate: is this a principled position or an anti-Modi bias? Literary critic and activist Ganesh Devy also joins the show.

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