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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 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...
- Parliamentary panel suggests recipient consent so awards of cultural academies are not returned for political reasonsIn its "Three Hundred Fifty First Report on 'Functioning of National Akademis and other Cultural Institutions', the panel underlined that r...
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- Will return award if Akademi doesn't make a clear stand: Anita DesaiHer comments came after at least 34 writers handed over their Sahitya Akademi awards in the aftermath of the killing M M Kalburgi.
- 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".
- Mandakranta Sen returns Sahitya Akademi AwardMandakranta Sen today returned Sahitya Akademi award. Sen is one of the youngest receiver of the award. She was conferred with the 'young w...
- Kannada writer Prof Rahamat Tarikeri returns Akademi awardKannada writer Prof Rahamat Tarikeri has returned his Sahitya Akademi award in protest against the killing of scholar M M Kalburgi.
- 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.
- Rushdie backs authors, 7 more return Sahitya Akademi awards"The Sahitya Akademi remains silent about the Kalburgi murder so many dangers our democracy is facing, the very fabric of democracy is unde...
- 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.
- Writers step up protest, 5 more return Akademi awardDelhi-based Aman Sethi said he too was returning the Sahitya Award he got in 1993, as the "spirit of inquiry is clearly under threat".
- 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...
- 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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