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| Nayan Tara Sehgal Ashok Bajpai Udai Prakash Rahman Abbas |
Malayalam
writer and activist, Sarah Joseph, with her voice against ‘communal policy of
union government, has decided to return her Sahitya Akademi Award (literary academy award).
It is first
instance when the writer of Kerala on rising of the communal issues in the
country took such step to express her opposite reaction.
Nayan Tara
Sehgal, famous writer and niece of Pt Jawahar Lal Nehru; former president of
Lalit Kala Academy, Ashok Bajpai; the renowned story writer of Hindi literature
Udai Prakash— all had returned their prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award (literary academy award). The
Urdu novelist Rahman Abbas has decided to return the Urdu Academy Award.
