Schriftstellerprotest

Mehr als 25 indische Schriftsteller geben ihre Auszeichnungen zurück, um gegen wachsende Intoleranz und die Untätigkeit der Regierung zu protestieren.

Darunter ist Ashok Vajpeyi,

A Hindi poet and essayist who was the chairman of Lalit Kala Akademi, India’s National Academy of Fine Art.

“It is high time that writers take a stand,” he said in October after returning the award given to him in 1994 for a poetry collection, “Kahin Nahin Wahin.”

Mr. Vajpeyi, born in 1941, wrote that he returned the award to protest the “terrible, restrictive ban-oriented environment” that now exists in India. He was also protesting the academy’s lack of a response to threats against writers.

“I returned the award to protest against the voiceless institution it has become,” he wrote.

/ New York Times 17.10.

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