Let (writers) stop writing, then we will see: Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma #FOE #WTFnews

Let (writers) stop writing, then we will see: Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma #FOE #WTFnews

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Besides, two Kannada writers, G N Ranganatha Rao and D N Srinath, returned Sahitya Akademi prizes for translation, while theatre artist Maya Krishna Rao returned her Sangeet Natak Akademi award.

Speaking to The Indian Express, Sharma said: "This is an award given by writers to writers. It has nothing to do with the government. It is their personal choice to return it… we accept it."As more writers returned their Sahitya Akademi awards on Monday to protest against the silence of the central government and the Akademi over the threat to free speech, Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma struck back, saying, "If they say they are unable to write, let them first stop writing. We will then see."

Speaking to The Indian Express, Sharma said: "This is an award given by writers to writers. It has nothing to do with the government. It is their personal choice to return it… we accept it."

Meanwhile, the Akademi called an emergency meeting of its executive board on October 23 to discuss the situation.

Kashmiri writer Ghulam Nabi Khayal, noted Gujarati poet Anil Joshi, Kannada writer Rahamath Tarikere and five writers from Punjab — Surjit Patar, Chaman Lal, Baldev Singh Sadaknama, Jaswinder and Darshan Buttar — on Monday joined the list of writers who have decided to return their Akademi awards, taking the total number to 23.

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Out caste Tagore Poetry is all about Universal Brotherhood which makes India the greatest ever Ocean which merges so many streams of Humanity!

आप हमारा गला भले काट दो,सर कलम कर दो लब आजाद रहेंगे! क्योंकि हिटलर के राजकाज में भी जर्मनी के संस्कृतिकर्मी भी प्रतिरोध के मोर्चे पर लामबंद सर कटवाने को तैयार थे।जो भी सर कटवाने को हमारे कारवां में शामिल होने को तैयार हैं,अपने मोर्चे पर उनका स्वागत है।स्वागत है।

प्रोफेसर चमनलाल ने भी लौटाया साहित्य अकादमी से मिला अनुवाद पुरस्कार #SahityaAkademiAward

असम के प्रख्यात साहित्यकार बोर्गोहैन भी लौटाएंगे साहित्य अकादेमी पुरस्कार #SahityaAkademiAward

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Why do I quote Nabarun Bhattacharya so often?

এই মৃত্যু উপত্যকা আমার দেশ নয়!

এই মৃত্যু উপত্যকা আমার দেশ নয়!Nabarun Da declared it in seventies!

Bengal has no courage to raise voice against the fascist racist HIT LIST or the governance of Fascism,I am afraid to speak out.Rest of India follows Nabarunda in creativity as creativity is all about the acts activated to sustain humanity and nature.Reactionaries have taken over the world and Bengal remains the colony!

Palash Biswas

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