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"Expressing intolerance should be done creatively, but returning award is not right," says Sudarshan Pattnaik.

Taslima Nasreen has slammed the established writers in Bangladesh for not protesting against the recent violent incidents.

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 Eminent space scientist G Madhavan Nair on Thursday disapproved move by scientists and writers to return their awards alleging "growing intolerance" in the country, and dubbied their action as a mere "show".

Returning awards by writers may not be the correct way to agitate against intolerance but they are entitled to decide the way they want to protest, feel dance, drama and music artistes who received Sangeet Natak Akademi awards today.

Interestingly, there's another group of writers who are present at the venue to protest against the writers who have decided to return their awards.

A day after Munawwar Rana announced that he would be returning his Sahitya Akademi award, the renowned Urdu poet on Monday said the writers in the country have not been left with any strong methods to lodge their protest.

The Sahitya Akademi should urge the government to ensure stringent measures to curb moral policing by "protagonists of mono-culturism", Goan Sahitya Akademi award-winner Damodar Mauzo has said.

After criticising the pseudo secular philosophy prevailing in India, Bangladeshi writer and human rights activist Taslima Nasreen has now also exposed the names of some writers whom she accuses of having double standards.

Reinforcing the need to end pseudo secularism, noted Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen has questioned the double standards of writers protesting against 'growing intolerance' in India.

Questioning why the writers did not protest in a similar manner after riots and killings in the past, BJP on Thursday alleged it was a "Congress sponsored" move and those returning awards in the wake of Dadri incident were doing a "new kind of politics" after their "patrons" lost.

 Eminent Punjabi writer and Padma Shri winner Dalip Kaur Tiwana today decided to return her award protesting "recurrent atrocities" on Muslims in the country as another Kannada writer joined authors giving up their Sahitya Akademi Awards against "growing intolerance".