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RANJIT HOSKOTE, poet, art critic, cultural theorist & curator

With polarisation, youth know what’s at stake; it’s the temperament of time: Sahitya Akademi Award winner Ranjit Hoskote

Hunchprose was a book that came out of my preoccupation with the ecological crisis that’s been concerning me for a…

April 10, 2022 02:00 IST

Intolerance row: Filmmakers returning National Awards brave act, says Mahesh Bhatt

Mahesh Bhatt has lauded the 36 filmmakers, who have returned their National Awards in support of protesting FTII students and…

November 6, 2015 11:36 IST

Those returning awards are rabid anti-BJP elements: Arun Jaitley

Arun Jaitley today stepped up attack on those returning awards by calling them “rabid anti-BJP elements” and stuck to his…

October 29, 2015 18:58 IST

Writers escalate Sahitya Akademi unrest, march against ‘intolerance’

Ahead of the emergency meeting by the Sahitya Akademi, many writers on Friday held a silent march to protest against…

October 23, 2015 11:34 IST

‘Seculars’ using cow slaughter as protein for ‘politics’: RSS organ

Taunting ‘liberals’ for using cow slaughter as a ‘protein for their secular politics’, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) organ ‘Organiser’…

October 21, 2015 09:06 IST

Urdu poet Munawwar Rana returns Sahitya Akademi award

Urdu poet Munawwar Rana on Sunday joined the growing protests by litterateurs over “rising intolerance” and “communal” atmosphere in the…

Updated: October 19, 2015 19:41 IST

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…

October 13, 2015 23:36 IST

Returning Sahitya Akademi awards appears to be pre-planned move: BJP leader

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Satyapal Singh on Tuesday said it appears to be a ‘pre-planned’ move by several prominent…

October 13, 2015 22:07 IST

Punjabi poet Surjit Patar returns Sahitya Akademi Award

Punjabi poet Surjit Patar returned his Sahitya Akademi Award yesterday to register his protest against the growing incidents of intolerance…

October 13, 2015 11:39 IST

Salman Rushdie backs authors, 12 more return Sahitya Akademi awards

Booker Prize winning author Salman Rushdie today joined the growing chorus of protests by writers and poets against spread of…

October 12, 2015 21:56 IST

Writers step up protest, Aman Sethi, GN Devy returns Sahitya Akademi award

Another two eminent writers on Sunday announced that they were returning their Sahitya Akademi awards, joining the growing protest by…

October 12, 2015 09:05 IST

M. M. Kalburgi murder: Kannada author Malagatti resigns from Sahitya Akademi’s post

Noted Kannada author Aravind Malagatti Sunday resigned from Sahitya Akademi’s Common Council, condemning its “silence” over the killing of scholar…

October 12, 2015 08:11 IST

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