Nayantara Sahgal, 91, a Sahitya Akademi awardee, had been at the forefront of the 2015 “award wapsi” campaign against the “growing intolerance in the country” under the Narendra Modi government. The Telegraph pictureOrganisers of the All India Marathi Literary Meet have withdrawn the inaugural session invitation to English language author Nayantara Sahgal, who was at the forefront of the “award wapsi” campaign, after “some people” threatened to disrupt the programme. Sahgal was supposed to inaugurate the 92nd literary meet on January 11 in the presence of Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis. In a media release issued on Sunday, the working president of the literary meet reception committee, Ramakant Kolte, said the organisers had taken cognisance of the threat issued by a political outfit. The release said the organisers had decided to revoke Sahgal’s invitation “as a controversy has cropped up against her name and to avoid any untoward incident from those who threatened to derail the literary meet”.

Source: The Telegraph January 07, 2019 09:08 UTC