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Late Tamil Poet Inquilab’s Family Rejects Sahitya Akademi Award Citing Rising Intolerance in India

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Post by Guest Sat Dec 23, 2017 10:50 am

The family of late poet and writer Inquilab, born as Shahul Hameed, has decided to decline the Sahitya Akademi award as he had always expressed his voice against the government.

Inquilab was selected posthumously for the award on December 21 for his collection of poetry Kaandhal Naatkal (the days of the flame lily). “It is in keeping with his aspirations,” his daughter Amina Bharvin said. “He has always remained a voice for the oppressed, underprivileged and backward people. That is how he would like to remain in public memory. He had written that he never expected awards for his works, and that the governments only gifted him with interrogations and arrests.”

“Those who criticise and question the power are being brutally silenced today. To accept an award from this government will be a betrayal to his writings and the kind of life he led,” she added.

Throughout his life, Inquilab faced interrogations from the bureaucracy for his consistent pro-people stand on various issues...

Inquilab was not just a poet; he also wrote short stories and plays besides being a political commentator. In his plays Avvai and Manimegalai (eventually staged by veteran theatre artist A. Mangai), Inquilab sought to re-examine and challenge the patriarchal notions of mythological women...

Mangai added that Inquilab would have most certainly declined the award. “Killing free voices like those of Gauri Lankesh and Narendra Dabholkar on one hand and giving awards to someone like Inquilab who has always espoused the cause of free voice on the other is devastatingly ironical,” she said.

If alive, Inquilab would have probably been the first – and only – Tamil writer to return an award even before it was officially conferred on him, joining the long list of writers who have returned their awards in the last three years. In his death, he continues to remain uncompromisingly so.

https://thewire.in/207555/late-tamil-poet-inquilabs-family-rejects-sahitya-akademi-award-citing-suppression-free-speech-dissent/

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