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Writers, activists join fight
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Writers and activists have joined the protest against acacia plantations in Malnad region. They have demanded the State government withdraw the forest land granted to MPM on lease to raise captive plantations.
Writer and Padmashree awardee Devanuru Mahadeva, Raitha Sangha senior leader Kadidal Shamanna, activist S.R.Hiremath, writers Dr. Purushottam Bilimale, Banjagere Jayaprakash and others have condemned the efforts to handover the forest land to the private parties.
The campaign has gained momentum on social media. Many people have put up posters and statements criticizing the renewal of the lease of the land to the MPM.
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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.
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December 22, 2020 08:58 IST
He said that the way in which these laws were passed in Parliament did not augur well for democracy.
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He said that the way in which these laws were passed in Parliament did not augur well for democracy. Kannada writer and activist Devanuru Mahadeva has said the farm laws enacted by the Union government were not only “anti-farmer”, but also an assault on “democracy, federalism and the Constitution”.
Participating in a farmers’ protest in Bengaluru on Monday, he said agriculture was a State subject and the Union government bringing about these wide-ranging fundamental reforms was an assault on federalism. He added that the way in which these laws were passed in Parliament, without consulting farmers, did not augur well for democracy.