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Sahitya Akademi Award

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Malayalam novel Meesha that sexualised temple-going women conferred Kerala Sahitya Akademi award

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A conversation in the novel portrayed that women who visited temples to show that they were available for sex.
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Did Munnawar Rana steal the lines of his famous poem ‘Maa’ from a couplet by poet Alok Srivastava? All you need to know

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Recently, Munawwar Rana's controversial tweet alluding Hindus as animals had kicked up a storm in the social media.
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Poet Munawwar Rana displays Hinduphobia, says there are 100 crore ‘animals’ and 35 crore ‘humans’ in India

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Addressing BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra, Munawwar Rana was criticising government of India's measures to combat coronavirus.
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In Winter 2019 ‘Award Wapsi’ season, Shashi Tharoor to accept Sahitya Akademi Award since it is not union govt nominated

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Thiruvananthapuram MP and Congress leader Shashi Tharoor won Sahitya Akademi Award for his book An Era of Darkness.
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“Tolerant” people force Literature Festival organizer to quit as they didn’t like his views

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Writers calling themselves as “liberals” and “tolerant” force Vikram Sampath, Founder Director of Bangalore Literature Festival, to quit.
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Ashok Chakradhar hits out at award returnees, asks them to see through TRP game and politics

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Chakradhar has questioned the wisdom of those who are taking this route to protest against the claimed issues of tolerance and free speech.
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With Sahitya Akademi award controversy, Nayantara Sahgal exposes another case of selective outrage

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Nayantara Sahgal was fine with the "Idea of India" when Sikhs were butchered, and when Kashmiri Pandits were thrown out?

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