New Delhi: Author and activist Arundhati Roy has joined the league of writers and filmmakers who have returned their awards as a protest against the growing intolerance in the country.
The 55-year-old author won the national award in 1989 for the film “In Which Annie Gives it Those Ones”. She also a Booker Prize winner for her book “The God of Small Things”.
“Although I do not believe that awards are a measure of the work we do, I would like to add the National Award for Best Screenplay that I won in 1989 to the growing pile of returned awards,” wrote Arundhati Roy in an article in Indian Express on Thursday.
“I believe what artists and intellectuals are doing right now is unprecedented, and does not have a historical parallel. It is politics by other means. I am so proud to be part of it. And so ashamed of what is going on in this country today,” added Roy.
(Agencies)
