Bengali poet Mandrakranta Sen returns Sahitya Akademi award
"This is my mark of protest against what happened in Dadri and the attacks on writers and rationalists in other parts of the country," she said on Tuesday.
"In a country when a man is being killed for eating beef, we feel that we should protest. That is why, I decided to return Sahitya Akademi award," Sen said.
Sen was given the Swarnajayanti Special Sahitya Akademi Young Writers award in 2004.
She is the first author from West Bengal to return the award while at least 15 Sahitya Akademi winners from across the country have already disowned the honour protesting what communal disharmony and attack on India's diversity.
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