Una incident: Dalit writer Amrutlal Makwana returns award

July 28, 2016 02:36

As a mark of protest against the thrashing of Dalit youths at Una, Dalit writer Amrutlal Makwana today returned an award given by the Gujarat

government.

The 44-year-old writer had received the Dasi Jeevan Shreshth Dalit Sahitya Kruti Award for 2012-13 for his work "Kharapat Nu Dalit Lok Sahitya".

Makwana returned the award, including Rs 25,000 cash, at Ahmedabad District Collector's office.

"I have also given a short letter to the authorities saying that I am returning this award out of grief and pain due to the treatment meted out to Dalit youths in Una," he said.

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