The ministry last month asked the Akademi to "reconsider names of writers" in its list, which the Akademi stated, it won't.

The 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 ...

The court had in December last year issued notices to the Ministry of Tourism and Culture and Sahitya Akademi and sought their replies on t...

He said the Akademi is also sending a copy of their resolution, which was passed in the October meeting, to all writers mentioning that the...

This was decided by the Akademi’s executive board which met on Thursday to announce annual awards for 2015 to litterateurs from across 23 I...

Post the 'award-wapsi' campaign across the country during which a slew of writers returned their Sahitya Akademi awards to protest against ...

The Sahitya Akademi again urged writers to take back the awards they have relinquished, saying these were given with love and respect and s...

In a letter to President Pranab Mukherjee, Narlikar said the awards carry a rare dignity and should remain above the fracas.

Writers from different parts of the country are sending back their awards, but the Akademi office is merely receiving the parcels without o...

Writers from across the country gathered at Shri Ram Centre near Mandi House and marched towards Sahitya Akademi in the capital, wearing bl...

Anand Bhardwaj has returned his Sahitya Akademi award in protest against "rising religious intolerance and attack on freedom of expression".

The decision by Joshi comes a day after another writer here, Ganesh Devy, returned his Sahitya Akademi Award citing a similar reason.

Sharma felt this was not the right course to take, making the point that there were “other methods” to register a protest.

K Satchidanandan resigned from all committees of the Sahitya Akademi saying the literary body had "failed" in its duty.

Shashi Deshpande resigned from the Sahitya Akademi General Council expressing "a sense of strong disappointment" over the literary body's s...

The Akademi reacted by accusing the writers of politicising the autonomous body.

The literary body's president said authors should "adopt a different way to protest" and not politicise the autonomous body.