The Newshour Debate: #ViralRevolt real or manufactured?
  • 9 years ago
In a debate moderated by TIMES NOW's Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami, panelists -- Dr Sambit Patra, National Spokesperson, BJP; M R Venkatesh, CA & Policy Analyst; Dr Saradindu Mukherji, Member, ICHR (Indian Council of Historical Research); Dr Ajoy Kumar, National Spokesperson, Congress; Shobhaa De, Author & Columnist; Arun Kamal, Member, Advisory Board, Sahitya Akademi; and Prof Kamal Mitra Chenoy, Professor, Centre for Comparative Politics & Political Theory, JNU -- discuss more and more authors returning their Sahitya Akademi awards in protest against 'curb on freedom of expression' and incidents of communal violence, protests by writers continuing across the country, some writers saying there is no need to return awards, Arun Jaitley's paper rebellion jibe sparking a fierce fight, and whether the fight of the writers is real or manufactured.