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Sridhar Vembu honours IITian who rejected MIT, stayed back in India, topped UPSC, had 32 transfers in 34 years as IAS officer: Who is Raju Narayana Swamy?Zoho co-founder Sridhar Vembu reminisced about his IIT Madras peer Raju Narayana Swamy, an exceptionally talented civil servant known for h...- Sahitya Akademi event featuring Bengali poet Srijato Bandyopadhyay cancelled after social media rowIn a surprising turn of events, the Sahitya Akademi has called off a scheduled event in Kolkata. Originally, the renowned poet Srijato Band...
- Culture Ministry ‘objects’ to Sahitya Akademi’s China teamThe ministry last month asked the Akademi to "reconsider names of writers" in its list, which the Akademi stated, it won't.
- Akademies likely to be in for a culture shockAutonomous cultural organisations — akademies, museums, libraries and cultural centres — under the culture ministry are fully funded by it.
- Show record of writers who returned Sahitya Akademi awards: Delhi High CourtThe court had in December last year issued notices to the Ministry of Tourism and Culture and Sahitya Akademi and sought their replies on t...
- Some writers have agreed to take back awards: Sahitya AkademiHe said the Akademi is also sending a copy of their resolution, which was passed in the October meeting, to all writers mentioning that the...
- Award wapsi boomerang: Sahitya Akademi says it will send back all awards returned to itThis was decided by the Akademi’s executive board which met on Thursday to announce annual awards for 2015 to litterateurs from across 23 I...
- Sahitya Akademi urges writers to take back awardsThe Sahitya Akademi again urged writers to take back the awards they have relinquished, saying these were given with love and respect and s...
- Sahitya Akademi in a fix as returned awards pile upWriters from different parts of the country are sending back their awards, but the Akademi office is merely receiving the parcels without o...
- Sahitya Akademi breaks its silence, passes resolution condemning killing of writersAkademi stressed the need to protect India’s plural culture but sidestepped demands from protesters for holding a condolence meet for Kalbu...
- President Pranab Mukherjee gives Sangeet Natak Akademi awardsAlong with them, 35 other noted personalities from various disciplines of dance, drama and music were conferred Akademi awards for 2014 by ...
- Vikram Seth backs Sahitya Akademi's condemnation of writers' killingVikram Seth today came out in support of the Sahitya Akademi statement denouncing the recent killing of writers.
- Writers march in protest, submit memorandum to Sahitya AkademiWriters from across the country gathered at Shri Ram Centre near Mandi House and marched towards Sahitya Akademi in the capital, wearing bl...
- Jaipur-based writer Anand Bhardwaj returns Sahitya Akademi awardAnand Bhardwaj has returned his Sahitya Akademi award in protest against "rising religious intolerance and attack on freedom of expression".
- Another Gujarat-based writer Anil Joshi to return Sahitya Akademi awardThe decision by Joshi comes a day after another writer here, Ganesh Devy, returned his Sahitya Akademi Award citing a similar reason.
- K Satchidanandan quits Sahitya Akademi posts, says it has failed in its dutyK Satchidanandan resigned from all committees of the Sahitya Akademi saying the literary body had "failed" in its duty.
- Shashi Deshpande resigns from Sahitya Akademi panel in protestShashi Deshpande resigned from the Sahitya Akademi General Council expressing "a sense of strong disappointment" over the literary body's s...
- Writers hurt by Sahitya Akademi's silence on killings: Giriraj KishoreNoted Hindi writer Giriraj Kishore today registered his protest over the killing of Kannada writer Professor M M Kalburgi and said the comm...
- Writers politicising the literary body: Sahitya Akademi chiefThe Akademi reacted by accusing the writers of politicising the autonomous body.
- Parliamentary panel blames lack of transparency, politics for ills of AkademisThe Committee recommended that legitimacy and integrity of these institutions like, Sangeet Natak Akademi, Lalit Kala Akademi, Sahitya Akad...
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