Nayantara Sahgal News

Thackeray admitted that one of his local party workers had opposed Sahgal's presence at the literary meet and regretted the annoyance caused to the supporters of such literary events.

Writer Nayantara Sahgal has said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has met his match in JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar.

 Jawaharlal Nehru University student leader Kanhaiya Kumar, who was charged with sedition, has been released from prison.

Noted writer Nayantara Sahgal , who has refused to accept her literary award back, on Sunday wrote to the Sahitya Akademi saying her protest against intolerance continues.

Author Nayantara Sahgal on Saturday criticised the Narendra Modi government for not being open-minded.  

About 40 writers had returned their awards in the past few months to the Sahitya Akademi.

As a protest over the 'growing' intolerance in the country, Sahgal, has returned Sahitya Akademi award following the Dadri incident in October last year.

Well-known Jaipur-based Rajasthani and Hindi writer Anand Bhardwaj has returned his Sahitya Akademi award in protest against "rising religious intolerance and attack on freedom of expression".

After Uday Prakash and Nayantara Sahgal, Ashok Vajpeyi too decides to return his Sahitya Akademi award 

Former Lalit Kala Akademi chairman Ashok Vajpeyi has returned the Sahitya Akademi Award in protest against the Dadri lynching case.

Author Nayantara Sahgal has decided to return the prestigious Sahitya Akademi award in solidarity with all Indians who uphold the right to dissent, saying the country is facing the greatest threat ever to the right of free speech.