New Delhi : The ‘Award Wapsi’ trend returned with writer Ashok Vajpeyi on Tuesday deciding to return his D. Litt honour conferred on him by Hyderabad University as a mark of protest against the University’s attitude towards a Dalit scholar’s suicide, reports ANI.
“Atmosphere of intolerance not only seems to be continuing, but rising. Incidents like Malda, replay of Muzaffarnagar, and now the University showing anti-Dalit attitude. So, I am returning the honour they bestowed on me,” Vajpeyi told ANI.
“Under present circumstances, I don’t think I can associate with Hyderabad University,” he added.
Vajpeyi had earlier returned the Sahitya Akademi Award in protest against the murder of renowned writer M.M. Kalburgi.
Rohith, a second-year research scholar of Science, Technology and Society Studies Department, and others were suspended from the hostel last year following allegations that they attacked Sushil Kumar after the screening of a controversial documentary ‘Muzaffar-nagar Baaqi Hai’.
