Author returns award in protest over Jallikattu issue
January 20, 2017  19:19
Meanwhile, back in India in Chennai, Lakshmi Saravanakumar, who won the Yuva Puraskar award last year for his novel on tiger hunting, 'Kaanakan,' returned it at the Sahitya Akademi office protesting against the lack of "positive" action from the Centre on the Jallikattu issue.

In a Facebook page, the author had said Tamil society had been 'betrayed' for long by Centre on many issues and that the ongoing pro-jallikattu protest was a reflection of the "oppression" faced by it for many years.
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