Writer Surjit Patar from Ludhiana returns his Sahitya Akademi award

October 13, 2015 20:16

Punjabi poet Surjit Patar has returned his Sahitya Akademi Award to register his protest against the growing incidents of intolerance and communal violence in the country.

Recently, poets Jaswinder and Darshan Buttar, and prose writer Baldev Singh Sadaknama also returned their awards, taking the total number of such writers from Punjab to eight.

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