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Samaresh Majumdar

09 May 2023

Sahitya Akademi Award Winner Samaresh Majumdar Dies; PM Modi Condoles Demise

Samaresh Majumdar is best known for 'Uttoradhikar', 'Kaalpurush', 'Satkahan', and 'Adventures of Detective Arjun'.

24 Dec 2020

Operation 'Award Wapsi', and the Truth; check all details

Out of 39 writers, who announced to return their awards, 26 did not return their souvenirs, only 13 returned their mementos The four authors neither returned their memento nor their prize money, but returned merely their award Only 13 authors returned both money and souvenirs, while 35 out of 39 scholars have made an offer to return the prize money through cheques to the Sahitya Akademi

Nirendranath Chakraborty

25 Dec 2018

Sahitya Akademi award winning Bengali poet Nirendranath Chakraborty dies at 94

He won the Sahitya Akademi award in 1974 for his poem 'Ulanga Raja' (naked king) which mocked the social set up.

Mushtaq Ahmad Mushtaq

05 Dec 2018

Kashmiri writer bags Sahitya Akademi award

The writer is presently posted as head of the regional news unit at Radio Kashmir Srinagar.

Sahitya Akademi Award

21 Dec 2017

Sahitya Akademi Awards announced for 24 languages; Tamil poet's family declines award

The Sahitya Akademi on Thursday announced its annual awards in 24 languages.

08 Jun 2017

''India might become an educationally failed nation''

An Indian linguist and anthropologist who is globally revered for his work on dying languages, Ganesh Devy has researched and documented 780 living Indian languages.

Happy Bhaag Jayegi

21 Jul 2016

'Happy Bhaag Jayegi' helmer's next is a biopic on poet Batalvi

Director Mudassar Aziz, who is awaiting the release of "Happy Bhaag Jayegi", hopes to direct a biopic on late legendary poet Shiv Kumar Batalvi.

Nayantara Sahgal

23 Jan 2016

Modi govt's culture minister may one day drape sarees around naked statues at Khajuraho: Nayantara Sahgal

Author Nayantara Sahgal on Saturday criticised the Narendra Modi government for not being open-minded.

23 Jan 2016

Intolerance levels remain high: Ashok Vajpeyi

Noted writer and poet Ashok Vajpeyi on Saturday refused to take back the Sahitya Akademi award that he had returned stating that "intolerance levels remain high" in the country.

Sahitya Akademi Award

22 Jan 2016

Months after returning her Sahitya Akademi award, Nayantara Sahgal agrees to take it back

As a protest over the 'growing' intolerance in the country, Sahgal, has returned Sahitya Akademi award following the Dadri incident in October last year.

19 Jan 2016

#AwardWapsi returns: Writer Ashok Vajpeyi returns D Litt degree in protest against Rohith Vemula's suicide

Vajpeyi's announcement comes two days after, Vemula, a Ph.D student, committed suicide on Sunday alleging harassment by the university authorities.

16 Dec 2015

Returning award would be ingratitude on my part, says Sahitya Academy Awardee Ruskin Bond

Noted writer and children's most lovable author Ruskin Bond recently shared his views on intolerance row, stating such incidents were always there, but today media has become so powerful that it is highlighting them.

06 Nov 2015

Award returnees should go where they see tolerance: Anupam Kher

04 Nov 2015

BJP's Vijayvargiya, Sadhvi Prachi dub SRK as 'anti-nationalist'

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03 Nov 2015

Those returning awards spreading ideological terrorism: Jharkhand CM

Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das hit out at Sahitya Akademi award winners who returned their laurels.

22 Oct 2015

In conversation with Munawwar Rana on controversies surrounding him

22 Oct 2015

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19 Oct 2015

Kashmir writer Margoob Banhali returns Sahitya Akademi award

Noted Kashmir writer and poet Margoob Banhali on Monday joined the growing list of litterateurs to return the Sahitya Akademi Award.

19 Oct 2015

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19 Oct 2015

Urdu poet Munawwar Rana returns Sahitya Akademi award

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