After Nayantara Sahgal, poet Ashok Vajpeyi returns award

October 07, 2015 12:44

After writer Nayantara Sahgal returned her Sahitya Akademi award protesting against what she called a "vicious assault" on India's diversity and debate, poet Ashok Vajpeyi has also given up the prestigious literary honour. "It is high time that writers take a stand," Vajpeyi, a former chairperson of the Lalit Kala Akademi, said.

Earlier, Hindi writer Uday Prakash had returned the award.

Ashok Vajpeyi said it was rare for a senior English writer like Nayantara Sahgal to take such a strong stand, and it needed support from the writing community. "The PM keeps quiet. He is an eloquent Prime Minister who addresses lakhs of people, but here writers are being murdered, innocent people are being killed, his ministers are making objectionable statements...Why doesn't he shut them up?"

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