Writers Protest Mm Kalburgi Killing
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Those Returning Awards are Spreading 'Ideological Terrorism': Raghubar Das
Hitting out at Sahitya Akademi award winners who returned their laurels, Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das has accused them of spreading "ideological terrorism" in the country.
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Jaitley's Comments on Akademi Row Show Government is Rattled: Nayantara Sahgal
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's comments on writers, historians, scientists and filmmakers returning awards to protest the climate of intolerance in the country show that the Narendra Modi government is rattled by the public outcry, noted writer Nayantara Sahgal said today.
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Malayalam Writer Sara Joseph Sticks to Her Stand on Sahitya Akademi Award
Malayalam writer Sara Joseph, who early this month returned her Sahitya Akademi honour to protest its silence at attacks on writers, said she will not reconsider her decision even as the Akademi for the first time today condemned the killings and urged the writers to take back the awards.
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Sahitya Akademi Backs Writers, But Urges Them to Take Back Awards
Breaking its widely-criticised silence, top literary body Sahitya Akademi today condemned the killing of Kannada Writer MM Kalburgi and other rationalists and came out strongly in support of writers who have protested against what they call "rising intolerance" in the country.
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Writers Hold Protest March in Delhi Ahead of Crucial Sahitya Akademi Meeting
With black gags and arm bands, writers and their supporters held a solidarity march in New Delhi ahead of the Sahitya Akademi emergency meeting to discuss the returning of awards by eminent authors in protest against "rising intolerance" in the backdrop MM Kalburgi's killing.
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Why Aren't Scientists Returning Awards?
If the spate of Award-wapsi is a 'motivated protest' by persons who have been patronized by the Congress or the Left, that would be as true of the scientists. Why then have few, if any, scientists protested publicly?
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Kannada Writer Returns Akademi Award in Protest Over Kalburgi Killing
Joining the bandwagon of writers and poets protesting against the growing intolerance, Kannada writer and professor, Rahamat Tarikeri has returned his Sahitya Akademi award in protest against the killing of scholar MM Kalburgi and rationalists Narendra Dabholkar and Govind Pansare.
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6 Kannada Writers Return Awards To Protest Kalburgi Killing
Six Kannada writers today registered their protest against what they said was slow progress in the investigation of the murder of rationalist writer M M Kalburgi.
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Those Returning Awards are Spreading 'Ideological Terrorism': Raghubar Das
Hitting out at Sahitya Akademi award winners who returned their laurels, Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das has accused them of spreading "ideological terrorism" in the country.
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Jaitley's Comments on Akademi Row Show Government is Rattled: Nayantara Sahgal
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's comments on writers, historians, scientists and filmmakers returning awards to protest the climate of intolerance in the country show that the Narendra Modi government is rattled by the public outcry, noted writer Nayantara Sahgal said today.
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Malayalam Writer Sara Joseph Sticks to Her Stand on Sahitya Akademi Award
Malayalam writer Sara Joseph, who early this month returned her Sahitya Akademi honour to protest its silence at attacks on writers, said she will not reconsider her decision even as the Akademi for the first time today condemned the killings and urged the writers to take back the awards.
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Sahitya Akademi Backs Writers, But Urges Them to Take Back Awards
Breaking its widely-criticised silence, top literary body Sahitya Akademi today condemned the killing of Kannada Writer MM Kalburgi and other rationalists and came out strongly in support of writers who have protested against what they call "rising intolerance" in the country.
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Writers Hold Protest March in Delhi Ahead of Crucial Sahitya Akademi Meeting
With black gags and arm bands, writers and their supporters held a solidarity march in New Delhi ahead of the Sahitya Akademi emergency meeting to discuss the returning of awards by eminent authors in protest against "rising intolerance" in the backdrop MM Kalburgi's killing.
-
Why Aren't Scientists Returning Awards?
If the spate of Award-wapsi is a 'motivated protest' by persons who have been patronized by the Congress or the Left, that would be as true of the scientists. Why then have few, if any, scientists protested publicly?
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Kannada Writer Returns Akademi Award in Protest Over Kalburgi Killing
Joining the bandwagon of writers and poets protesting against the growing intolerance, Kannada writer and professor, Rahamat Tarikeri has returned his Sahitya Akademi award in protest against the killing of scholar MM Kalburgi and rationalists Narendra Dabholkar and Govind Pansare.
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6 Kannada Writers Return Awards To Protest Kalburgi Killing
Six Kannada writers today registered their protest against what they said was slow progress in the investigation of the murder of rationalist writer M M Kalburgi.
