Tamil Nadu-based writer and recipient of Sahitya Akademi’s Yuva Puraskar award, Lakshmi Saravanakumar, on Friday, reportedly returned his award as a sign of protest against the lack of Positive action by the centre on the Jallikattu issue. Saravanakumar on Facebook said that if there were no positive action on the part of the government by Thursday night on Jallikattu, he would return the award. Notably, he won the Yuva Puraskar award last year for his novel on tiger hunting, Kaanakan.
By Varun Vasudevan | Jan 21, 2017 4:00 PM #LakshmiSaravanakumar #SahityaAkademiAward #Jallikattu #JallikatuBan
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