Systematic campaign launched to justify the Killings as no less than 41 writers have returned awards!
Systematic campaign launched to justify the Killings as no less than 41 writers have returned awards!
Systematic campaign launched to justify the Killings as no less than 41 writers have returned awards!
Palash Biswas
Kolkata. Intensive campaign is launched to boost the Killings in social networking along with hate campaign. As If all the writers and poets and creative writers are the agents of foreign interest and all of them suddenly engage themselves in Anti Hindu Anti National activities. As Tagore is branded as antinational, we should not be surprized.
Academy President suddenly has been described as Gandhian and the Leftist stand is still seer confusion as the progressive writers known hitherto refuse the caravan in protest. For example Bengal.
Mainstream media rushes to publish the interviews of the Academy President who cites autonomy and dignity of the Academy one the one hand, one the other hand his latest logic is that whosoever returns award, is insulting Academy.
Contrarily, those who join the protest caravan are being demonized and media skips their version.
Meanwhile, however, 41 Writers Return Indian Award, Cite Climate of Intolerance!
Media reports:
India's literary community is disgusted. Dozens of writers say every day brings more evidence of intolerance and bigotry going mainstream — a man lynched allegedly for eating beef, an atheist critic of Hindu idol worship gunned down — all met by a deafening silence from the government.
As of Wednesday, 41 novelists, essayists, playwrights and poets had returned the awards they received from India's prestigious literary academy to protest what they call a growing climate of intolerance under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government.
The writers are also angry that India's Sahity Academy, or National Academy of Letters, has said little about the murder of the well-known rationalist Malleshappa Kalburgi, an award-winning Kannada-language writer, gunned down in August for his writings against superstition and false beliefs.
The government has dismissed the writers' protests, questioning their motives and accusing them of being politically motivated.
