Writers withdraw from Bengaluru literature fest

November 28, 2015 09:08

Unhappy with the festival director's criticism of the trend of writers returning their awards to protest intolerance in India, two prominent Kannada writers have withdrawn from the Bangalore Literature Festival 2015 scheduled for December 5 and 6.

Writers Dayanand TK and Arif Raja shot off angry letters to the festival organisers recently in which they questioned the political leanings of BLF director and author Vikram Sampat who described writers returning awards as "sheep' in a recent opinion piece in the Mint.

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