Hindi writer Uday Prakash was the first to return the prestigious award. Writer Nayantara Sahgal and poet Ashok Vajpeyi followed Prakash in protesting the murders of rationalists like MM Kalburgi, Govind Pansare and Narendra Dabholkar. They also came out against the shocking Dadri incident, in which a mob lynched a Muslim man in Greater Noida over rumours of eating and storing beef.
At least 16 litterateurs have returned the prestigious Akademi award, while four have resigned elite posts of the organisation.
Here is the list of litterateurs who returned their Sahitya Akademi Awards*
| No | Litterateur | Language |
| 1 | Uday Prakash | Hindi writer |
| 2 | Nayantara Sahgal | Indian English writer |
| 3 | Ashok Vajpeyi | Hindi poet |
| 4 | Sarah Joseph | Malayalam novelist |
| 5 | Ghulam Nabi Khayal | Kashmiri writer |
| 6 | Rahman Abbas | Urdu novelist |
| 7 | Waryam Sandhu | Punjabi writer |
| 8 | Gurbachan Singh Bhullar | Punjabi writer |
| 9 | Ajmer Singh Aulakh | Punjabi writer |
| 10 | Atamjit Singh | Punjabi writer |
| 11 | GN Ranganatha Rao | Kannada translator |
| 12 | Mangalesh Dabral | Hindi writer |
| 13 | Rajesh Joshi | Hindi writer |
| 14 | Ganesh Devy | Gujarati writer |
| 15 | Srinath DN | Kannada translator |
| 16 | Kumbar Veerabhadrappa | Kannada novelist |
| 17 | Rahmat Tarikere | Kannada writer |
| 18 | Baldev Singh Sadaknama | Punjabi novelist |
| 19 | Jaswinder | Punjabi poet |
| 20 | Darshan Battar | Punjabi poet |
| 21 | Surjit Patar | Punjabi poet |
| 22 | Chaman Lal | Punjabi translator |
| 23 | Homen Borgohain | Assamese journalist |
*The list does not include six Kannada writers who returned the State literary award on 3 October. Theatre artist Maya Krishna Rao has also returned her Sangeet Natak Akademi award on 12 October, while Shiromani Lekhak award winner Megh Raj Mitter has also announced to return his award.
List of litterateurs who resigned from Sahitya Akademi posts
| No | Litterateur | Language |
| 1 | Shashi Deshpande | Kannada author |
| 2 | K Satchidanandan | Malayalam poet |
| 3 | PK Parakkadvu | Malayalam writer |
| 4 | Aravind Malagatti | Kannada poet |
Article Published: October 13, 2015 07:00 IST
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এই মৃত্যু উপত্যকা আমার দেশ নয়!
এই মৃত্যু উপত্যকা আমার দেশ নয়!Nabarun Da declared it in seventies!
Bengal has no courage to raise voice against the fascist racist HIT LIST or the governance of Fascism,I am afraid to speak out.Rest of India follows Nabarunda in creativity as creativity is all about the acts activated to sustain humanity and nature.Reactionaries have taken over the world and Bengal remains the colony!
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Firstpost - 11 hours ago Ballari (Karnataka): Joining the bandwagon of writers and poets protesting "growing intolerance", Kannada writer Prof Rahamat Tarikere has returned his Sahitya Akademi award in protest against the killing of scholar M M Kalburgi and rationalists ...
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Mid-Day - 15 hours ago Sahitya Akademi President Vishwanath Prasad Tiwari had said that the institution was committed to the core secular values enshrined in the Constitution of India. Khayal said, "I have decided to return the award. The minorities in the country are ...
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Daily News & Analysis - Oct 12, 2015 "I support Nayantara Sahgal and the many other writers protesting to the Sahitya Akademi. Alarming times for free expression in India," he tweeted. 88-year-old Sahgal, niece of Jawaharlal Nehru, was among the first to lodge her protest against the ...
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Business Standard (press release) (registration) (blog) - Oct 12, 2015 Akademi officials said this was the first instance when award-winners were returning their awards. Earlier, there had been instances of authors refusing to accept the Sahitya Akademi award. The 1997 Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy, for example, had ...
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Times of India - 11 hours ago VADODARA: After tribal activist Ganesh Devy, another Gujarati litterateur poet Anil Joshi returned his Sahitya Akademi Award. Joshi on Monday wrote a letter to Sahitya Akdemi president professor Viswanath Pratap Tiwari informing him about his decision ...
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Business Standard - Oct 12, 2015 On Monday, 12 more writers announced their decision to return their Sahitya Akademi or other similar awards, taking the total number of litterateurs doing so to 24. Besides, Kannada writer Aravind Malagatti resigned from the Akademi's general council ...
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Firstpost - Oct 12, 2015 Vadodara: The train of writers returning government-conferred honours on Monday saw city-based author and poet Anil Joshi announce that he will give up his Sahitya Akademi award over the recent killing of rationalist MM Kalburgi and a few others.
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The Wire - Oct 11, 2015 Eminent writers Gurbachan Bhullar, Ajmer Singh Aulakh and Atamjit Singh from Punjab and GN Devy from Gujarat today announced that they were returning their Sahitya Akademi awards like several other authors including Nayantara Sehgal, Sarah Joseph, |
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