Background of the Writers’ Protest Against Sahitya Academy The left leaning writers have started a protest against Sahitya Academy in specific and the government in general. In this writers’ protest, more than 40 writers have either returned their awards or relinquished their statuses. Their protest is against the “terrorism” of the extremist right wingers and against the “subtle” support of the state machinery to the acts of “terrorism” against writers,…