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Prof. Katyayani joins Award wapsi revolt
Kendra Sahitya Akademi award recipient and writer Prof Katyayani Vidamahe of Kakatiya University has joined the ‘literary revolt’ by returning her award on Saturday.
Returns Akademi Award
Warangal: Kendra Sahitya Akademi award recipient and writer Prof Katyayani Vidamahe of Kakatiya University has joined the ‘literary revolt’ by returning her award on Saturday.
She announced her decision to return the Sahitya Akademi Award protesting against the attacks on writers and curbing of freedom of expression.
The award would be returned to the Akademi on October 23, she said at a press conference in Hanamkonda.
The professor was conferred with the Award for her book of essays, Sahityakasamlo Sagam in 2013. “Democracy is not just a mode of governance; it is a way of life.
It can only flourish when difference of opinion, freedom of expression and civilised dialogues on social aspects are allowed.
A society cannot be called a civilised one if the privilege of intellectuals and rights of activists to express themselves are at stake.
The writers across the nation are involved in the ‘highest form’ of protest by giving back awards conferred on them, and I wish to join them to convey my protest against the violent way of suppressing writers,” she explained.
“If anyone has an objection over a literary work, he could express the same in the form of criticism. But, eliminating a writer just because he or she has written something that is not palatable to them is not correct,” she pointed out.
Prof Katyayani, who is the national general secretary of Democratic Writers Forum, added, “But now there seems to be an undeclared ban on freedom of expression, where the writers with difference of opinion are being killed.
Intolerance towards freedom of expression is increasingly taking the shape of violence,” she added.The Akademi stayed silent towards the evil trend of killing the writers it honoured with awards, she lamented.
The Democratic Writers Forum would convene a meeting of writers from Telangana and Andhra Pradesh at Sundaraiah Vignana Kendram in Hyderabad on October 25, to agree on the future course of action,
where writers could collectively take action when such incidents that threatened the democratic framework of our nation happened, she revealed.
