Artistes should be known for work, not for returning award: Prasoon Joshi

October 21, 2015 08:27

Lyricist and adman Prasoon Joshi has come out against writers returning their awards to protest what they call rising intolerance in the country. "That there is politics over literary recognitions is a matter of pain," Joshi said in a statement. "An artiste should be known for his work and not for returning awards," the lyricist said in a comment which comes amid a debate over whether writers are justified in returning the awards they received from Sahitya Akademi and other bodies. "It will be more dignified if a litterateur expresses herself through her creation," Joshi said.

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