Dear Award Returnee, you are irrelevant to common man; An open letter
Dear Award Returnee, May I submit, humbly, that you are just wasting your time; you are not achieving your objectives that you set out to. Let me explain. Why are awards being returned? As stated by many of award returnees, this action is to protest, to highlight the growing intolerance in the society and the threat to freedom of expression; to artists, writers and film makers and also to sensitize people against such a social environment. Therein lies the problem. That problem being that the man on the street does not know who you are, what did you do to get an award, what you claim to fame is and what is your real reason for doing what you are doing now. No. Do not take me wrong. I have no intention of running down your achievements in literature, art or cinema or trivializing the awards, my limited point being that the common man is not able to relate himself to you, your achievements, awards as well as the reason for returning them. The common man is going...