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Statutory warning in awards is a bad ideaThe Parliamentary Standing Committee on Transport, Tourism and Culture recommends that recipients of awards from state-run Akademis be aske...- Sangeet Natak Awards suspense ends without much dramaList comes out unaltered after some general council members threatened to resign in case of any change under pressure.
- Ask people whether they want Rahul as PM, Mamata as foreign minister: Amit Shah to BJP workersShah asked party workers to work hard for winning the elections scheduled later this year without bothering about who would be the chief mi...
- Have evidence to show Award Wapsi was politically motivated, not spontaneous: Former Sahitya Akademi chiefFormer Sahitya Akademi president Vishwanath Prasad Tiwari said the four-month campaign was motivated by three groups of writers.
- ET View: Transparency is a most Nobel goalIt would be easy to ascribe this event to the post-Harvey Weinstein #MeToo world war on sexual harassment, but the secretive nature of Swed...
- Government muzzling dissent: Congress on FIR over alleged Aadhaar data breachDubbing it as "a clear attack on journalism", Congress spokesperson Manish Tewari alleged that there have been systematic assaults on scrib...
- Gurmehar row: Nationalism bad word only in this country, says Arun JaitleyDefence Minister Manohar Parrikar also jumped in to defend student group ABVP which last week allegedly instigated violence.
- Award wapsi political tool, NMML not just for Nehru: Mahesh SharmaThe Nehru Memorial Museum and Library was created for showcasing Nehru and all those who contributed to India’s freedom movement.
- 'Award wapsi' an immature step, says Jnanpith awardeeVeteran Gujarati litterateur Raghuveer Chaudhary, chosen for the prestigious Jnanpith Award for 2015, has termed as an "immature step" the ...
- Award-wapsi season suddenly halted after Bihar elections: Anupam KherTaking a dig at those who cried hoarse over 'intolerance' by returning their awards, actor Anupam Kher today said that it was aimed at Biha...
- 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...
- 'India's present scenario resembles McCarthy era in the US'Noted writer Shashi Deshpande, said the present scenario bore a "dreadful resemblance" to the McCarthy era in the US, when nobody was exemp...
- No country can develop with a government that cannot respect artists: Shashi DeshpandeThe veteran writer, who relinquished her post at the Sahitya Akademi General Council over intolerance, also expressed concern over writers ...
- Vikram Sampath steps down as the director of Bangalore Literature FestivalFollowing three Kannada writers - TK Dayanand, Airf Raja and OL Nagabhushana Swamy - boycotting the Bangalore Literature Festival (BLF) in ...
- Some Sahitya Yuva Puraskar awardees 'condemn' intoleranceBadiger is among the writers from 23 languages who were conferred the Yuva Puraskar in a ceremony here on November 18.
- 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 ...
- Media heckled at Anupam Kher-led rallyAnupam Kher alleged that the "award-wapsi" campaign was to defame the country by projecting a "wrong" picture of the situation.
- M S Sathyu backs Arun Jaitley on intolerance issueSathyu’s “Garam Hawa” is considered one of the finest films on Partition and its aftermath. He told ET that the award wapsi by over 60 cult...
- Anupam Kher slams filmmakers for returning National AwardFilmmakers Dibakar Banerjee, Anand Patwardhan and eight others returned their National Awards.
- Maha dalit writer gives back state award as she compares current situation worse than EmergencyOne more writer this time from Maharashtra has decided to return the government awards bestowed on her in protest against the Dadri inciden...
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