Weeks after returning their awards in protest against ‘growing intolerance’ in the country, some eminent writers who had returned their Sahitya Akademi awards have relented and agreed to take them back.

While noted writer Nayantara Sahgal, who was one of the first to join the ‘award waapsi’ campaign, took her award back recently in view of the contention that there is no provision to return the award, Rajasthani writer Nand Bhardwaj said he was “satisfied” with the response of the Akademi following an outrage among the awardees over its silence and inaction over the killing of rationalists.


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