Hindi poet Ashok Vajpeyi said he was recently asked to avoid reciting poems critical of the government at an event. Writer Ashutosh Bhardwaj noted that organisers of a Nagpur fest removed four names from the guest list after 'warnings'.
The Odd Book of Baby Names by Anees Salim won the best English fiction award and Tagore & Gandhi: Walking Alone, Walking Together by Rudrangshu Mukherjee won the best English non-fiction category.