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:
Punjabi Writers:
Marathi Writers:
Kannada Writers:
Malayalam Writers:
Telugu Writers:
Urdu Writers:
Assamese Writers:
English Writers:
Others:
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
- Sambhaji Bhagat
- Ganesh Vispute
- Yeshu Patil
- Mukund Kule
- Vasant Patankar
- Milind Malshe
- Harsihchandra Thorat
- Praveen Bandekar
- Govind Kajrekar
- Sanjay Bhaskar Joshi
- Mahendra Kadam
- Mohan Patil
- Rajeev Naik
- Mukund Kule
- Milind Malshe
- Ibrahim Afghan
Kannada Writers:
- Muddu Thir Thahalli (11th student)
- GN Ranganatha Rao
- DN Srinath
- Rahmat Tarikere
- Kumbar Veerabhadrappa (Kumvee)
- Shashi Deshpande
- Aravind Malagatti
- Veeranna Madiwalar
- T. Satish Javare Gowda
- Sangamesh Menasinakai
- Hanumanth Haligeri
- Shridevi V. Aloor
- Chidanand Sali
- Chikkappanahalli Shanmukha
Malayalam Writers:
- Sarah Joseph
- K Satchidanandan
- PK Parakkadvu
Telugu Writers:
- M. Bhoopal Reddy
- Katyayani Vidmahe
Urdu Writers:
- Munawwar Rana
- Rehman Abbas
- Gaus Sayyad
- Margoob Banihali
- Ghulam Nabi Khayal (Kashmir)
Assamese Writers:
- Homen Borgohain
- Nirupama Borgohain
English Writers:
- Nayantara Sahgal
- Keki N Daruwalla
- Vikram Seth
- Aman Sethi, Yuva Puraskar
Others:
- Ganesh Devy, Gujarati writer
- Mandakranta Sen, Bengali poet
- N. Shivdas, Konkani writer
- Ambika Dutt, Rajasthani writer
- Danish Husain, Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar
Film makers:
- Anand Patwardhan
- Dibakar Banerjee
- Paresh Kamdar
- Nishtha Jain
- Kirti Nakhwa
- Harshavardhan Kulkarni
- Hari Nair
- Rakesh Sharma
- Rakesh Shukla
- Indraneel Lahiri
- Lipika Singh Darai
- Pratik Vats
- Vikrant Pawar
- Virendra Saini
- Saeed Mirza
- Kundan Shah
- Sanjay Kak
- Tapan Bose
- Madhushree Dutta
- Arundhati Roy
- Pradip Krishen
- Ranjit Palit
- Shriprakash
- Tarun Bhartiya
- Amitabh Chakraborty
- Anwar Jamal
- Ajay Raina
- Irene Dhar Malik
- PM Satheesh
- Satya Rai Nagpaul
- Manoj Lobo
- Rafeeq Ellias
- Sudheer Palsane
- Vivek Sachidanand
- Sudhakar Reddy Yakkanti
- Dr Manoj Nitharwal
- Abhimanyu Dange
Artisan:
- Vipul Kumar (returned Lalit Kala Akademi award - Rajasthan)
Scientist:
- Pushpa Mittra Bhargava (returned Padma Bhushan)
Historian:
- Shekhar Pathak (returned PadmaShree)
Armed Forces:
- Major General (retd.) Satbir Singh (to return 10,000 medals)
There are 116 people in totality of this list. Over 150 countries are in solidarity with these respected personalities till now. It's a protest which we (world) cannot ignore, as it is happening in world's greatest democracy.
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