Is Nayantara Sahgal being hypocritical by returning her award?

October 07, 2015 09:52

Writer Nayantara Sahgal returned her Sahitya Akademi award in protest against what she calls the growing politics of religious intolerance. That it comes against the backdrop of the Dadri murder suggests that it is more directly connected to the most recent example of hate politics spurring targeted violence. We could argue that Sahgal is guilty of stark double standards. After all, she received her award in 1986, just two years after the anti -Sikh pogrom in the national capital.

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