Sahitya Akademi row: Being anti-Hindu considered secularism in India?
Reinforcing the need to end pseudo secularism, noted Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen has questioned the double standards of writers protesting against 'growing intolerance' in India.
Oct 18, 2015, 23:19 PM IST
Urdu poet Munawwar Rana returns Sahitya Akademi award; two more hand over honour
Urdu poet Munawwar Rana on Sunday joined over 30 authors who have returned Sahitya Akademi award while Hindi writer Kashinath said he was handing over the honour in protest against "irresponsible" comments by various ministers on writers who have been agitating against "rising intolerance".
Oct 18, 2015, 21:55 PM IST
Where were Indian writers when my books were banned, says Taslima Nasrin
Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin says that the recent Sahitya Award returnees are Hindu protestors only and back in her time nobody protested against Muslims.
Oct 18, 2015, 17:38 PM IST
Sahitya Akademi must ensure moral policing is curbed: Writer
The Sahitya Akademi should urge the government to ensure stringent measures to curb moral policing by "protagonists of mono-culturism", Goan Sahitya Akademi award-winner Damodar Mauzo has said.
Oct 18, 2015, 14:46 PM IST
Most Bengali writers were supporters of CPIM, now they're supporters of TMC: Taslima Nasreen
After criticising the pseudo secular philosophy prevailing in India, Bangladeshi writer and human rights activist Taslima Nasreen has now also exposed the names of some writers whom she accuses of having double standards.
Oct 18, 2015, 11:05 AM IST
Politicians in India appease Muslims which annoys Hindus: Taslima Nasreen
Reinforcing the need to end pseudo secularism, noted Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen has questioned the double standards of writers protesting against 'growing intolerance' in India.
Oct 17, 2015, 13:05 PM IST
Telugu writer Bhoopal Reddy to return Sahitya Akademi award
Telugu writer Bhoopal Reddy on Thursday said he has decided to return his Sahitya Akademi award.
Oct 15, 2015, 22:58 PM IST
Goan writers not to return Akademi awards, for now
A group of Sahitya Akademi awardee writers from Goa, including Amitav Ghosh, Maria Aurora Couto and others, is of the view that returning awards in protest of "growing intolerance" in country under the Narendra Modi dispensation may not be the right way forward at current juncture.
Oct 15, 2015, 22:21 PM IST
Literary laureates are politically motivated, says Anupam Kher
Anupam Kher has said that Sahitya Akademi award winners are politically motivated and it is not the first time that such incident has taken place.
Oct 14, 2015, 18:01 PM IST
Voices not raised after Emergency, Muzaffarnagar: Prasad on writers returning awards
Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Wednesday questioned eminent writers for returning awards to protest against Kannada author Kalburgi's murder and Dadri lynching, telling them that such voices were "not heard" after incidents like Emergency and Muzaffarnagar riots.
Oct 14, 2015, 15:59 PM IST
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BJP asks writers why did they not return awards during UPA rule
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Vijay Goel on Tuesday asked prominent writers of the country as to why did they not return their Sahitya Akademi awards when the Congress-led UPA regime was in power for a decade.
Oct 13, 2015, 19:33 PM IST
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'Misquoted' over Sahitya Akademi crisis: Mahesh Sharma
Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma on Tuesday said that he has been misquoted over his opinion on the ongoing crisis in the Sahitya Akademi.
Oct 13, 2015, 11:54 AM IST
PM Narendra Modi must speak on lynching, says AAP
AAP leader Kumar Vishwas on Monday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to speak up on the lynching of a man following rumours that he ate beef.
Oct 12, 2015, 15:53 PM IST
Poet Adil Jussawalla urges Akademi to condemn 'unacceptable censoring' of writers
Poet and critic Adil Jussawalla, who received the Sahitya Akademi honour for his work in 2014, today urged the literary body to condemn the "unacceptable censoring" of writers by "violently intolerant groups."
Oct 11, 2015, 20:22 PM IST
Writers hurt by Akademi's silence on killings: Giriraj Kishore
Noted Hindi writer Giriraj Kishore on Thursday registered his protest over the killing of Kannada writer Professor M M Kalburgi and said the community of writers is hurt by the silence of Sahitya Akademi on such incidents.
Oct 08, 2015, 19:55 PM IST
