Now Sahitya Academy starts returning awards
posted on Jan 23, 2016 8:52AM
Who could ever forget the Award Wapasi protest by the writers? Almost 40 writers are said to return their sahitya academy awards in protest of growing intolerance. Incidents like the murder of noted social activist Kalburgi has sparked off this protest. The writers were questioning the silence of Sahitya Academy in condemning the intolerance. Noted writers like Nayantara Sahgal and Nand Bhardwaj have started the Award Wapasi program which created ripples in the literary community. Now! It seems the time for Sahitya Academy to return back the returned awards! Sahitya Akademi president Vishwanath Prasad Tiwari has stated that the awards were being sent back to the writers. It seems that almost 10 writers have agreed to take back the awards! The Sahitya Academy in a letter to the writers has mentioned that it has no policy to take back the awards. The Academy has also clarified that it has condemned the communal killings that took place in the country. Well! Will the writers who receive back the awards return it again?