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'Panchayat' season 3 will bring new characters and crazy events, reveals actor Chandan Roy: DetailsActor Chandan Roy, known for his role in "Panchayat," shares insights about the upcoming third season, promising it to be filled with "craz...
Three Muzaffarnagar distilleries produce 6.73 crore litres of ethanol in FY21Triveni Alco produced 4.30 crore litre ethanol, while the output for Tikaula Sugar Mills and Mansurpur Distillery was 1.12 crore litre and ...
India much cleaner after Swachh Bharat Mission: Ruskin Bond"Due to the Modi governments Swachchta Abhiyan different cities have become cleaner than earlier, Ruskin Bond said.
Poet Uday Prakash refuses to take back Sahitya Akademi awardThe award-winning poet said he was disheartened to see authors taking back their awards only a week after the death of the Dalit scholar in...
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 ...
Historians speak out against PM Narendra Modi's silence over 'highly vitiated atmosphere'A total of 53 historians including names like Romila Thapar, Irfan Habib and Mridula Mukherjee have in a joint statement released by Sahmat...
Sahitya Akademi condemns writer's killing, appeals to take back awardsCondemning the killing of writer MM Kalburgi, Sahitya Akademi passed a unanimous resolution appealing to Union and state governments to pre...
Will wait for Akademi decision to return Sahitya award: Vikram SethThe 63-year-old writer who had received an Akademi award in 1988 for his novel 'The Golden Gate' said this on the sidelines of the launch o...
Urdu poet Munnawar Rana returns Sahitya Award on live TVRana today announced on live TV his decision to return Sahitya Akademi award along with a Rs one lakh cash prize and vowed not to accept an...
Why the writers and thinkers of India face a critical Nirbhaya momentFor the literary circle in the country that is returning its awards and resigning from representative bodies, it is the Nirbhaya moment.
PM Narendra Modi's choice of words 'very weak': Writer Shashi DeshpandeEminent author Shashi Deshpande today said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's comment on the Dadri lynching incident were "far too weak."
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...
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".
Speak up on 'communal frenzy', Kashmiri writers to AkademiThe president of Adbee Markaz Kamraz (AMK), a body of 25 literary and cultural organizations from north Kashmir, Shujaat Bukhari, said in a...
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...
Hindi writer Uday Prakash returns Akademi award over Kalburgi killingIt was received by the personal secretary to the Sahitya Akademi secretary K Sreenivasarao, who was out of town.
MM Kalburgi shot dead: How many deaths will it take till we know that too many rationalists have died?Three murders of elderly rationalists, in two years, in three towns that almost form a north-south 400-km long straight line, by assassins ...