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"Award Winners Not Patriots": Madhya Pradesh Minister's Bizarre Comment
A BJP leader and minister in Madhya Pradesh today said "those abusing mother India and dividing the country" were honoured with national awards, in a bizarre attempt to criticize winners who have been returning their awards in support of the farmers protesting near Delhi.
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Ex-Sportspersons Say Will Return Awards To Protest Action Against Farmers
A group of top sportspersons and coaches from Punjab have threatened to return all their medals and awards and lay siege to Delhi if the central government does not repeal its three controversial ordinances that have sparked a furore among the country's farmers.
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"Award Wapsi Gang Active Again": Giriraj Singh On Citizens' Letter To PM
Union Minister Giriraj Singh on Wednesday said ''award wapsi'' gang has become active again to destabilise the Narendra Modi government after 49 eminent citizens wrote to the prime minister on lynchings and said that ''Jai Shri Ram'' has become a provocative war cry.
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'Award Wapsi' Suddenly Stopped After Bihar Elections: Anupam Kher
Taking a dig at those who cried hoarse over 'intolerance' by returning their awards, actor Anupam Kher today said that it was aimed at Bihar elections and questioned the sudden halt of such a campaign.
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Film Fraternity is Leftist, Says Anurag Basu Explaining 'Award Wapsi'
"As a film fraternity we are a little leftist, we are always against the establishment. The artists have always protested. It has always been there but it is being discussed more," Anurag Basu said
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Aamir Khan Joins 'Intolerance' Debate, Says Wife Even Suggested Leaving India
Actor Aamir Khan today joined the debate on the growing 'intolerance' and said he has been "alarmed" by a number of incidents, and that his wife Kiran Rao even suggested that they should probably leave the country.
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Kareena Kapoor Says Returning Awards Will Not Solve Problems
"I haven't returned any awards. Returning an award would not solve any problem. We should learn to address the issue (of intolerance) rather than getting it upon ourselves. It is not a personal issue, it is the issue of entire nation," Kareena Kapoor said at a press meet in Raipur
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Kamal Haasan Says Better Ways to Protest Than Returning Awards
"They keep asking why I didn't return my award. In that case, Mahatma Gandhi should've also returned his law degree to the British government because he was against it. But he didn't do so, did he?" said Kamal Haasan. "People should seriously consider using podiums to raise their voice," he added
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Shah Rukh Khan Speaks From His Heart, Says Sonu Sood
When asked whether he was supporting Shah Rukh, Sonu tweeted: SRK is the most grounded and generous actor I have come across who speaks from his heart. Earlier, actor Anupam Kher had come out in SRK's support after BJP MP Yogi Adityanath likened him to Pakistani terrorist Hafiz Saeed following his comment on growing intolerance in India
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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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Anil Kapoor Says 'Intolerance' is Not New, Doesn't Agree With Awardwapsi
"I haven't heard what he (Shah Rukh) has said. As far as I know him, I don't think that there would be any such thing in his mind. My stand is this thing (intolerance) is not something that's happening only in this government or in the previous government," said Anil Kapoor
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Bollywood Divided: 9 Actors Who Don't See the Point in Returning Awards
The decision of a varied group of filmmakers, authors and poets to return government-granted awards as a form of protest has left opinion divided and India's film fraternity fractured. Supriya Pathank asked: "Are we gaining anything from that? Have you been able to make a point that something has changed? Whom are we pressurising by this?"
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Rishi Kapoor Says he Has no Award to Return, Wouldn't Return if he Had
Rishi Kapoor, 63, used his chosen method of communication, Twitter, to announce that he had no award to return because his work has gone overlooked by successive governments, and he wouldn't return an award if he had one. "I am against this return of honour," he wrote on Twitter
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Kamal Haasan Says Returning Awards to Fight 'Intolerance' is 'Futile'
"Intolerance," said Mr Haasan, "has existed from 1947 and that is why we became two nations. Returning awards is futile. It does not help anything. You will just insult the government and those who gave awards to you with love," said Kamal Haasan
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'Don't Understand' Why Artists Were Returning Awards, Musician Zubin Mehta Says
Mumbai-born music maestro Zubin Mehta today said he failed to understand why artists, writers, filmmakers and other intellectuals were returning their state awards, while suggesting that those protesting against the government should engage in a "dialogue" with it.
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"Award Winners Not Patriots": Madhya Pradesh Minister's Bizarre Comment
A BJP leader and minister in Madhya Pradesh today said "those abusing mother India and dividing the country" were honoured with national awards, in a bizarre attempt to criticize winners who have been returning their awards in support of the farmers protesting near Delhi.
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Ex-Sportspersons Say Will Return Awards To Protest Action Against Farmers
A group of top sportspersons and coaches from Punjab have threatened to return all their medals and awards and lay siege to Delhi if the central government does not repeal its three controversial ordinances that have sparked a furore among the country's farmers.
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"Award Wapsi Gang Active Again": Giriraj Singh On Citizens' Letter To PM
Union Minister Giriraj Singh on Wednesday said ''award wapsi'' gang has become active again to destabilise the Narendra Modi government after 49 eminent citizens wrote to the prime minister on lynchings and said that ''Jai Shri Ram'' has become a provocative war cry.
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'Award Wapsi' Suddenly Stopped After Bihar Elections: Anupam Kher
Taking a dig at those who cried hoarse over 'intolerance' by returning their awards, actor Anupam Kher today said that it was aimed at Bihar elections and questioned the sudden halt of such a campaign.
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Film Fraternity is Leftist, Says Anurag Basu Explaining 'Award Wapsi'
"As a film fraternity we are a little leftist, we are always against the establishment. The artists have always protested. It has always been there but it is being discussed more," Anurag Basu said
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Aamir Khan Joins 'Intolerance' Debate, Says Wife Even Suggested Leaving India
Actor Aamir Khan today joined the debate on the growing 'intolerance' and said he has been "alarmed" by a number of incidents, and that his wife Kiran Rao even suggested that they should probably leave the country.
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Kareena Kapoor Says Returning Awards Will Not Solve Problems
"I haven't returned any awards. Returning an award would not solve any problem. We should learn to address the issue (of intolerance) rather than getting it upon ourselves. It is not a personal issue, it is the issue of entire nation," Kareena Kapoor said at a press meet in Raipur
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Kamal Haasan Says Better Ways to Protest Than Returning Awards
"They keep asking why I didn't return my award. In that case, Mahatma Gandhi should've also returned his law degree to the British government because he was against it. But he didn't do so, did he?" said Kamal Haasan. "People should seriously consider using podiums to raise their voice," he added
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Shah Rukh Khan Speaks From His Heart, Says Sonu Sood
When asked whether he was supporting Shah Rukh, Sonu tweeted: SRK is the most grounded and generous actor I have come across who speaks from his heart. Earlier, actor Anupam Kher had come out in SRK's support after BJP MP Yogi Adityanath likened him to Pakistani terrorist Hafiz Saeed following his comment on growing intolerance in India
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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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Anil Kapoor Says 'Intolerance' is Not New, Doesn't Agree With Awardwapsi
"I haven't heard what he (Shah Rukh) has said. As far as I know him, I don't think that there would be any such thing in his mind. My stand is this thing (intolerance) is not something that's happening only in this government or in the previous government," said Anil Kapoor
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Bollywood Divided: 9 Actors Who Don't See the Point in Returning Awards
The decision of a varied group of filmmakers, authors and poets to return government-granted awards as a form of protest has left opinion divided and India's film fraternity fractured. Supriya Pathank asked: "Are we gaining anything from that? Have you been able to make a point that something has changed? Whom are we pressurising by this?"
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Rishi Kapoor Says he Has no Award to Return, Wouldn't Return if he Had
Rishi Kapoor, 63, used his chosen method of communication, Twitter, to announce that he had no award to return because his work has gone overlooked by successive governments, and he wouldn't return an award if he had one. "I am against this return of honour," he wrote on Twitter
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Kamal Haasan Says Returning Awards to Fight 'Intolerance' is 'Futile'
"Intolerance," said Mr Haasan, "has existed from 1947 and that is why we became two nations. Returning awards is futile. It does not help anything. You will just insult the government and those who gave awards to you with love," said Kamal Haasan
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'Don't Understand' Why Artists Were Returning Awards, Musician Zubin Mehta Says
Mumbai-born music maestro Zubin Mehta today said he failed to understand why artists, writers, filmmakers and other intellectuals were returning their state awards, while suggesting that those protesting against the government should engage in a "dialogue" with it.
