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India's Writers Are Returning Literary Awards to Protest Diminishing ...
TIME-13-Oct-2015
The list of those who have returned their awards includes poets, playwrights and authors from various parts of the country, working in several ...
Why nine Punjabi writers have returned their Sahitya Akademi award
DailyO-12-Oct-2015
Sahitya Akademi protest: Complete list of writers who returned their ...
International Business Times, India Edition-12-Oct-2015
11 more return Akademi awards, Salman Rushdie joins chorus
Times of India-12-Oct-2015
What the return of Sahitya Akademi awards means for the nation
Opinion-Daily News & Analysis-12-Oct-2015
9 writers return Sahitya awards, 1 quits Akademi
In-Depth-The Indian Express-11-Oct-2015
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Writers Returning Akademi Awards Are a 'Manufactured Revolt ...
NDTV-2 hours ago
New Delhi: The steady stream of writers returning Sahitya Akademiawards has been termed as a "manufactured paper rebellion" against the ...
Writers returning awards a 'manufactured revolt': Arun Jaitley
The Indian Express-3 hours ago
Writers returning awards is 'manufactured revolt', says Union ...
In-Depth-Zee News-3 hours ago
Writers returning awards a 'manufactured paper rebellion', says Arun ...
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Kashmiri Writer Khayal Returns Sahitya Akademi Award
The Wire-15 hours ago
Srinagar: Kashmiri writer and poet, Ghulam Nabi Khayal, has become the first literary figure from the Valley to join the ranks ofwriters across ...
They must be in pain: Shantanu Moitra on writers returning awards
Hindustan Times-8 hours ago
Punjabi writer Ajmer Singh Aulakh returns Sahitya Akademi award
In-Depth-Business Standard-13-Oct-2015
Write choice: Why writers returning their awards is a PR disaster for ...
Blog-Economic Times (blog)-13-Oct-2015
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Seven more writers to return awards
The Indian Express-21 hours ago
SEVEN writers from Maharashtra, including two from Pune, and a publisher from the city, on Tuesday decided to return the awardsconferred on ...

Deccan Herald
Voices not raised after Emergency, Muzaffarnagar: Prasad on ...
Zee News-9 hours ago
New Delhi: Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Wednesday questioned eminent writers for returning awards to protest against Kannada ...
Voices not raised after Emergency, Muzaffarnagar: Prasad
Deccan Herald-9 hours ago
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I won't return Padma Shri, says Punjabi writer Gurdial Singh
Hindustan Times-6 hours ago
Ever since the wave of returning awards started in Punjab, with onewriter after another registering protest in this manner, all literary attention ...
Punjabi author Dalip Kaur Tiwana returns Padma Shri protesting ...
In-Depth-Firstpost-14 hours ago
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Writers returning award to discredit PM, move politically motivated ...
Zee News-9 hours ago
Mumbai: Bollywood actor Anupam Kher has hit out at writers who have returned their award alleging attack on freedom of speech and to protest ...
Writers returning awards politically motivated: Anupam Kher
Hindustan Times-7 hours ago
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Writers returning Sahitya Akademi awards is a landmark moment ...
Times of India-11-Oct-2015
Former Bengal governor and Mahatma Gandhi's grandson Gopalkrishna Gandhi has hailed writers for returning their Sahitya Akademi awards ...

DMK slams Modi's silence on writers returning awards
The Hindu-20 hours ago
Recalling the return of the Sahitya Akademi award by Nayantara Saghal that led to other writers giving up their awards and 16 Tamil Sahitya ...

Dadri lynching: Nayantara Sahgal, Ashok Vajpeyi question PM ...

The Indian Express-06-Oct-2015

Earlier, Hindi writer Uday Prakash had also returned his Sahitya Akademi award while six Kannada writers have returned literaryawards given ...

After Nayantara Sahgal, Poet Ashok Vajpeyi Returns Award, Takes ...
NDTV-06-Oct-2015

Writer returns award to protest Modi 'silence on intolerance'
BBC News-06-Oct-2015

The unmaking of India: Why writer Nayantara Sahgal is returning her ...
Scroll.in-06-Oct-2015

Writer Nayantara returns her Sahitya Akademi Award
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Nayantara Sahgal protests Dadri lynching, returns Akademi award
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Writers returning Sahitya Akademi awards are ideologically diverse
ABP Live-12-Oct-2015
When at the age of 90, iconic Hindi writer Krishna Sobti decides to sever all her ties with the Sahitya Akademi by returning its Fellowship as well ...

Return of awards by writers act of conscience: Govind Nihalani
Hindustan Times-09-Oct-2015
“I respect the writers who have returned their Sahitya Akademiawards in protest against the recent rise of communalism. Allwriters who have ...

Urdu writer joins protest, to return prize
The Hindu-08-Oct-2015
After writer Nayantara Sahgal and poet Ashok Vajpeyi, Urdu novelist Rahman Abbas announced that he would be returning the Maharashtra ...
Urdu writer returns state award to protest against 'intolerance'
Times of India-07-Oct-2015
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Akademi awards returned show writers' dismay: Poet Barelvi
Times of India-12-Oct-2015
BAREILLY: Urdu poet Wasim Barelvi says it is only understandable that a large number of award-winning litterateurs should bereturning ...

Seven more writers to return awards | Pune NYOOOZ
NYOOOZ-16 hours ago
The wave of protest by writers across the country started after ninewriters returned their Sahitya Akademi awards on Sunday. Pune-based ...

Six writers to return award to Sahitya Parishat
The Hindu-02-Oct-2015
Six writers, who were conferred Kannada Sahitya Parishat's BMTC Aralu Sahitya award, are returning them on Saturday “condemning the ...
Kalburgi murder: Six writers return awards over slow probe
Hindustan Times-03-Oct-2015
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Now Alia Bhatt returns 'Student of the year' award to protest PM's ...
Firstpost (satire)-12-Oct-2015
Mumbai: After extremely famous writer Nayantara Sahgal returnedher Sahitya Akademi award, another extremely talented artist Alia Bhatt has ...

Writers Returning Their Awards Have Political Agenda: Anupam Kher
The Quint-8 hours ago
Hitting out at writers who have returned their awards on allegtions of attack on freedom of speech, and to protest against communal attacks in ...

Kalburgi Murder: Six Kannada Writers Return Awards Over Slow ...
News World (satire) (blog)-05-Oct-2015
Upset over the delay in arrest of Kannada thinker M M Kalburgi's killers even a month after he was gunned down, six Kannada writerson ...

Weed out intolerance & bigotry from country, say writers
HERE. NOW-13-Oct-2015
Bhubaneswar, Oct 14: At a time when many literateurs are returningtheir Sahitya Akademi awards in protest of rising communal tension and ...

Writers' protest

The Hindu-13-Oct-2015

I agree that in returning their awards, Sahgal and Vajpeyi have ... It is not clear if the “dissent” is born out of writers' concerns for India and its ...

Nine more scholars return Sahitya Akademi award

indiablooms-11-Oct-2015

"I am returning the award as a protest against growing intoleracne," Devy ... All thewriters have protested against Sahitya Akademy's silence on ...

Who Won 2015's Man Booker Prize? 'A Brief History Of Seven ...
Bustle-13-Oct-2015
... 1970s, moves to New York City in the 1980s, and returns to Jamaica in the 2000s. ... The Man Booker Prize is the third award A Brief History of Seven ... Among the twelve writers shortlisted for the 2014 and 2015 prizes, four ...

Returning the awards
GreaterKashmir.com-11-Oct-2015
Before him the English writer, Nayantara Sehgal, returned one of India's highest literary honors. The objective of their returning theawards is to ...

Breaking silence, India's Modi calls Muslim's murder over beef ...
The National-9 hours ago
More than 20 writers have returned awards in the last week in protest against Mr Modi's silence over the killing of the Muslim man and the ...

After Nayantara, Vajpeyi returns SahityaAkademi Award
GreaterKashmir.com-07-Oct-2015
Vajpeyi's decision came close on the heels of celebrated writerNayantaraSahgal yesterday returning the SahityaAkademi Awardover "vicious ...

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Is Modi the worst thing to happen to India? Two friends discuss
DailyO-13-Oct-2015
Suleiman Khan returned to India from Saudi Arabia last week. .... "But Anwarbhai, did so many artistes and writers return theirawards when ...