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The hold successful announcing the Sahitya Akademi Awards has drawn beardown disapproval from CPI(M) State Secretary P. Shanmugam and enactment MP Su. Venkatasan, who accused the BJP-led Union authorities nether Prime Minister Narendra Modi of attempting to bring the Akademi nether its control.
The awards were scheduled to beryllium announced connected December 18, but it was postponed aft the Union Ministry of Culture sent a enactment to the Akademi reminding it of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed with the 4 autonomous institutions nether the Ministry — the National School of Drama, the Sangeet Natak Akademi, the Lalit Kala Akademi, and the Sahitya Akademi. The enactment stated that immoderate restructuring of awards should beryllium undertaken successful consultation with the Ministry.
Condemning the Ministry’s intervention, Mr. Shanmugam alleged that, henceforth, awards would beryllium fixed lone to those who “play 2nd fiddle to the BJP authorities and supporters of Sanatana ideology.”
“Quality successful lit and past means thing to them. Their authorities is to destruct everything,” Mr. Shanmugam said successful a societal media post.
Mr. Venkatasan said that the National Executive Council of the Sahitya Akademi had met earlier this period and approved the recommendations made by the respective connection juries for selecting the Sahitya Akademi Award recipients for 2025.
“It is unacceptable that the autonomous Sahitya Akademi remains soundless and claims an inability to denote its decision. This soundlessness and helplessness magnitude to a betrayal of our affluent literate contented and the Akademi’s illustrious history. I impulse the Akademi’s Executive Council to boldly marque its decisions public,” said Mr. Venkatasan, who is himself 1 of the grant recipients.
He further alleged that the Modi authorities was openly forcing the country’s eminent taste institutions to “kneel astatine its feet.”
“All those who emotion lit and penning indispensable travel unneurotic and defy this onslaught connected our state of expression,” helium said.
