Writers

At least 26 Writers, Poets and Translators across the country, have returned the Sahitya Akademi Awards, saying the country is going through a bad phase of intolerance and rising communal tension. They had received the awards years ago.…

Punjabi Writers Gurbachan Bhullar, Ajmer Singh Aulakh and Atamjit Singh have returned the Sahitya Akademi Awards. They joined the "elite club" of Uday Prakash, Nayantara Sahgal, Ashok Vajpeyi, Sara Joseph and Rahman Abbas, who have already…

At least three top writers in India have returned the Sahitya Akademi Awards, questioning PM Modi's silence over various issues, including Dadri lynching, murder of Govind Pansare and Kalburgi and other communal unrest and cultural attacks.…