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List of litterateurs & filmmakers who returned their Awards

Here is a complete list of litterateurs and filmmakers who returned their Sahitya Akademi Awards, National Film Awards and other similar prizes of honour citing religious intolerance, murders of rationalists like Dr. Narendra Dabholkar, Comrade Govind Pansare, Prof. MM Kalburgi , attacks on Muslims, Dalits and Christains, violence by fanatics in the country, inappropriate appointments in noble institutes like FTII, cosh on the freedom of speech and silence of Govt on such incidents. Hindi Writers: Uday Prakash Ashok Vajpeyi Rajesh Joshi Anil Joshi Mangalesh Dabral Krishna Sobti Nand Bhardwaj Chaman Lal Kashinath Singh Punjabi Writers: Waryam Singh Sandhu Gurbachan Singh Bhullar Ajmer Singh Aulakh Atamjit Singh Jaswinder Singh Darshan Buttar Surjit Patar Chaman Lal Baldev Singh Sadaknama Mohan Bhandari Hardev Chauhan Megh Raj Mitter (Shiromani Lekhak award) Dalip Kaur Tiwana (Padma Shree award) Marathi Writers: Pradnya Daya Pawar Urmila Pawar Sambhaj