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Wrestlers return Padma honours: Looking back at 'award wapsi' during Indira Gandhi regime
January 02, 2024 12:14 am
Award wapsi, or the returning of civilian honours, is by no means a recent phenomenon in India. Two notable examples are from the Emergency period.
‘Award wapsi’: Khushwant Singh to Bajrang Punia, the history of returning govt honours in protest
December 24, 2023 4:38 pm
Returning or declining awards has often been a way of scoring a political point against the government. But, some have also refused citing personal reasons or as a matter of principle.
G N Devy writes on ‘award wapsi’: Parliamentary Committee Report doesn’t understand the artist’s conscience
July 28, 2023 8:31 am
In 1964, Jean Paul Sartre declined to accept the Nobel Prize for Literature. None of the official records of the Swedish Academy or French government have ever censured Sartre. They understand that writers and artists function as the conscience of the people and have the courage to challenge the state
Express View on ‘award wapsi’: Writer’s choice
July 28, 2023 7:39 am
Parliamentary panel on writers returning awards wilfully misunderstands place of writers in society, idea behind honouring them.
Against ‘award wapsi’: What Marathi Dalit writer Sharankumar Limbale’s acceptance of a prestigious literary prize says
July 01, 2021 7:49 am
Vinay Sahasrabuddhe writes: He has shown remarkable courage in taking a ‘politically incorrect’ position, given the prevailing mentality of a powerful section of so-called liberals.
Social activist Shabnam Hashmi returns National Minority Rights Award over 'lynchings'
June 27, 2017 7:55 pm
It comes nearly two years after an episode where a number of authors, filmamkers and scientists had returned national awards in the wake of the lynching of Mohammed Akhlaq in Uttar Pradesh's Dadri over rumours of beef consumption.
Award wapsi: Delhi HC seeks details of stand taken by writers who returned awards
May 10, 2016 4:07 am
The bench raised the issue of implementation of the policy sought by the petitioners. “Even if we make guidelines and someone returns the awards, what can be done?” asked the bench.
Award-wapsi has become fashion, says Chetan Bhagat
January 18, 2016 8:19 pm
Bhagat was speaking at the All India Marathi literary convention on Monday.
Top US official hails ‘award wapsi’ drive
January 14, 2016 2:09 am
Sewall was speaking at the Vivekananda International Foundation, where she was invited to deliver a speech on “Countering Violent Extremism”.
2015: Apolitical film industry takes a political stand
December 30, 2015 9:10 am
Until now, film professionals have expressed their political stand only through their work, remaining largely diplomatic in public. This changed in 2015, when the mainstream spoke up against clampdown on freedom and rising intolerance in the country
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Writer Ashok Vajpeyi to return D.Litt on Dalit suicide
January 20, 2016 8:11 am
New Delhi, Jan 20 (ANI): The 'Award Wapsi' trend returned with writer Ashok Vajpeyi deciding to return his D. Litt honour conferred on him by the Hyderabad University as a mark of protest against the university's attitude towards the Dalit scholar's suicide. Vajpeyi added that under present circumstances, he doesn’t think he can associate with the Hyderabad University. Earlier, he had returned the Sahitya Akademi Award to protest the murder of renowned writer M.M. Kalburgi.
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