Saurav Mukherjee | Oct 15, 2015, 5:32 PM IST
Supports comes in solidarity with activists who were not invited
Press Trust of India | Oct 15, 2015, 1:42 AM IST
Fourteen Sahitya Akademi award winning writers from Goa today came together to launch a campaign to condemn the recent killing of rationalists and writers in the country.
Priya Arora | Oct 15, 2015, 12:56 AM IST
Citing incidents of suppression and violence over the last year, over 40 writers from across India have given back awards from the Sahitya Akademi in a largely unprecedented protest that crosses regional, language, and political divides.
ANI | Oct 13, 2015, 7:42 PM IST
BJP leader Satyapal Singhon Tuesday said it appears to be a 'pre-planned' move by several prominent writers and poets to return their Sahitya Akademi awards
Press Trust of India | Oct 13, 2015, 6:51 PM IST
Kannada writer Prof Rahamat Tarikeri has returned his Sahitya Akademi award in protest against growing violanc in the country
ANI | Oct 13, 2015, 4:25 PM IST
Punjabi poet Surjit Patar returned his Sahitya Akademi Award yesterday to register his protest against the growing communal violence in the country
Saurav Mukherjee | Oct 13, 2015, 12:14 AM IST
Till now 16 writers have returned Sahitya Akademi awards, more to follow
Press Trust of India | Oct 13, 2015, 1:53 AM IST
In a joint statement here, Punjabi language writer and poet Surjit Patar, novelist and story writer Baldev Singh Sadaknama, poets Jaswinder and Darshan Buttar said they too would be returning their awards as a mark of protest
Press Trust of India | Oct 12, 2015, 10:04 PM IST
14 writers have returned awards till now, institution concerned
Saurav Mukherjee | Oct 12, 2015, 4:06 AM IST
Joins eight others, slam government for silence on communal disharmony
Indo-Asian News Service | Oct 10, 2015, 9:03 PM IST
she joins other writers, including Nayantara Sahgal and Ashok Vajpeyi, former chairperson of the Lalit Kala Akademi, who returned their Sahitya Akademi awards
India.com News Desk | Oct 10, 2015, 6:34 PM IST
Joseph said she will return the award along with the cash award.
