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· Nov 05, 2015 · 04:39 pm
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'Akademi has not stood up for beleaguered writers': Poet Keki Daruwalla returns his award

The organisation has failed to speak out against ideological collectives that have used physical violence against authors, the poet says in his letter explaining why he has sent back his Sahitya Akademi prize.

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· Oct 14, 2015 · 01:22 pm
'Your moment of reckoning has come': GN Devy, Aman Sethi return Sahitya Akademi awards

Full text of their letters to the president of the literary institution explaining their decisions to return the national honour.

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· Oct 11, 2015 · 07:33 pm
'Stir from your soporific stance and act': Poet Keki Daruwalla appeals to Sahitya Akademi president

The eminent poet is the latest to add his voice to the rising chorus of protests against the silence of the country's premium literary body on the murder of professor MM Kalburgi.

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· Oct 10, 2015 · 08:51 pm

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Full text: Eminent Malayalam poet and critic K Satchidanandan resigns from Sahitya Akademi

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Conscientious Objector

Arundhati Roy: 'Intolerance is the wrong word for the lynching and mass murder of human beings'

The respected author has issued a statement about her decision to return the national film award she won in 1989 for writing the screenplay of 'In which Annie Gives it Those Ones'.

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'Congress and BJP have both weakened the idea of India': Saeed Mirza returns his national award

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'Akademi has not stood up for beleaguered writers': Poet Keki Daruwalla returns his award

The organisation has failed to speak out against ideological collectives that have used physical violence against authors, the poet says in his letter explaining why he has sent back his Sahitya Akademi prize.

Scroll Staff · Oct 14, 2015 · 01:22 pm

'Your moment of reckoning has come': GN Devy, Aman Sethi return Sahitya Akademi awards

Full text of their letters to the president of the literary institution explaining their decisions to return the national honour.

Scroll Staff · Oct 11, 2015 · 07:33 pm

'Stir from your soporific stance and act': Poet Keki Daruwalla appeals to Sahitya Akademi president

The eminent poet is the latest to add his voice to the rising chorus of protests against the silence of the country's premium literary body on the murder of professor MM Kalburgi.

Scroll Staff · Oct 10, 2015 · 08:51 pm

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Full text: Eminent Malayalam poet and critic K Satchidanandan resigns from Sahitya Akademi

'Holding a ritual condolence meeting in a regional office, as the Akademi seems to have done,' he wrote, 'is hardly an adequate response to these recent attacks on the freedom of expression'

Scroll Staff · Oct 10, 2015 · 12:02 pm

'Silence is a form of abetment': Shashi Deshpande quits Sahitya Akademi governing body

The institution, she said, 'should speak for the large community of Indian writers, and must stand up and protest the murder of Professor Kalburgi and all such acts of violent intolerance'.

Scroll Staff · Oct 09, 2015 · 02:56 pm

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