Lopamudra wrote:
Actually its kind of a chain reaction which seems to have started. People protesting against intolerance, blaming the govt for everything happening around them and in the process showing intolerance towards the govt with extremity to an extent that it seems like a game plan followed by the Government and its supporters showing intolerance towards the protesters. Shah Rukh Khan also passed this remark on 'extreme intolerance' in the country and was termed 'anti-national' by a another leader. It seems be be like fire catching on. It has to stop
I guess now the government will have to think of making space for all the awards and felicitations that have been returned by the writers !
The funny thing is even choosing personalities for awards was always clouded with controversy , now the same people who may or may not have been eligible want to return , goes to show that they have either not things over well because most of these awards were conferred by the UPA government an their support for the writers is laughable given this fact , and the writers and the so called thinkers and rationalists have acted on the spur of the moment or probably those awards meant nothing to them. A sane person would not return something that he or she has been honored with in the past !