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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin connected Sunday (January 18, 2026) announced the instauration of a nationalist literate grant for works successful 7 Indian languages.
Speaking astatine the valedictory relation of Chennai International Book Fair 2026, helium said, “Owing to the interference of the Union Ministry of Culture, the lawsuit to denote the Sahitya Akademi Awards 2025 was cancelled a fewer days agone aft the database was finalised. We bash not cognize whether the awards would beryllium announced. Political interference successful arts and lit is dangerous.”
Mr. Stalin said writers and stakeholders successful arts and lit urged the Tamil Nadu authorities to enactment successful a constructive manner, responding to the governmental interference by the Union authorities successful arts and literature. “In the archetypal phase, the champion literate works successful the Indian languages of Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Odia, Bengali, and Marathi volition person the Semmozhi Literary Award each year. The grant volition transportation a currency prize of ₹5 lakh for each language. Once the Dravida Model 2.0 authorities is formed, we volition fortify and grow this initiative, making it world-class. We volition physique libraries crossed Tamil Nadu. Let america airy the occurrence of cognition and look victorious, moving successful harmony with each other.”
Pointing to the value of translation and copyright transportation astatine the publication fair, Mr. Stalin said the translation of Heart Lamp into English had made Kannada writer Banu Mushtaq famous crossed the world. “The sojourn of specified a writer who shares the Dravidian perfect of societal justness has brought glory to this publication fair. I thank Banu Mushtaq for accepting our invitation.”
Stressing the request for harmony and sharing of ideas among languages, helium said the ideas cherished by the writers of our onshore should beryllium shared with each the radical of the satellite and the large ideas from assorted parts of the satellite should scope our people. “Language is not a partition that separates people; rather, it bridges radical crossed the world. This lawsuit has made america realise our dream. I congratulate our School Education Minister Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi and School Education Secretary B. Chandra Mohan connected the occurrence of this publication fair,” helium added.
