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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...
- Sahitya Akademi announces Yuva Puraskar, Bal Sahitya Puraskar winners for 2024The Sahitya Akademi announced the winners of the prestigious Yuva Puraskar and Bal Sahitya Puraskar for 2024. A total of 23 writers, includ...
- 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.
- 38 writers returned their Sahitya Akademi awards: HC toldThe Centre's response came in the backdrop of the court's desire to see the records showing the number of awardees who have returned their ...
- 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...
- Writers must respect their awards: Sahitya Akademi PresidentPost the 'award-wapsi' campaign across the country during which a slew of writers returned their Sahitya Akademi awards to protest against ...
- 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...
- Law and order government's responsibility, not Akademi's: Jayant NarlikarIn a letter to President Pranab Mukherjee, Narlikar said the awards carry a rare dignity and should remain above the fracas.
- 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...
- 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.
- Sahitya Akademi resignations: Fair choice if quitting due to ideology, says Culture Minister Mahesh SharmaSharma felt this was not the right course to take, making the point that there were “other methods” to register a protest.
- 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 politicising the literary body: Sahitya Akademi chiefThe Akademi reacted by accusing the writers of politicising the autonomous body.
- Don't politicise Sahitya Akademi: Chairperson TiwariThe literary body's president said authors should "adopt a different way to protest" and not politicise the autonomous body.
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