Meghalaya based film maker returns National award

November 05, 2015 16:27

Meghalaya-based film maker Tarun Bhartiya today returned the National Award he received in 2009 joining a host of writers, filmmakers and scientists in protest against the "growing intolerance" in the country. Bhartiya who won the award for editing documentary film 'In Camera '" Diaries of a Documentary Cameraman'.

"Today the unease has grown and examples of the truly greats '" Krishna Sobti, 90, for instance '" returning their awards gives me a feeling that I don't need to keep mine either," Bhartiya said in a letter to President Pranab Mukherjee.

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