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Bengali poet Shankha Ghosh dies battling COVID-19 at 89
Shankha Ghosh s death came even as Bengal was recovering from the demise of iconic actor Soumitra Chattopadhyay who passed away in November, fighting post-COVID complications.
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KOLKATA: Noted Bengali poet Shankha Ghosh, a Padma Bhushan awardee, died on Wednesday morning while he was in isolation at his residence after testing positive for COVID-19, his family said.
Ghosh, 89, was found to be COVID-positive on April 14.
He was in home isolation on the advice of doctors and was stable, his family said.
However, his condition deteriorated suddenly late on Tuesday night, following which he was given oxygen support, they said.
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Out of 39 writers, who announced to return their awards, 26 did not return their souvenirs, only 13 returned their mementos
The four authors neither returned their memento nor their prize money, but returned merely their award
Only 13 authors returned both money and souvenirs, while 35 out of 39 scholars have made an offer to return the prize money through cheques to the Sahitya Akademi
New Delhi: When Narendra Modi became Prime Minister after the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the country witnessed a new wave of protest, wherein, several scholars and litterateurs announced to return their awards. This has started especially in the wake of incidents that occurred at Dadri in Uttar Pradesh in 2015, and in Karnataka. These writers and ideologues had expressed their dismay over increasing intolerance in the country and decided to return their awards in the protest.