SAHITYA AKADEMI AWARDS ROW: Power Comes A-Knocking, or Writers Go Knocking at Power’s Door?

Both truths define our times — Right Wing is stifling independent voices, and pen-pushers are in transactional negotiations with power IN A PUNJABI piece headlined “Power Knocking on the Doors of Writers,” Swarajbir, a respected intellectual, former editor of Punjabi Tribune, and retired DGP, invokes the greats — Kālidāsa, Socrates, Giordano Bruno — to make…