New Delhi: Noted activist and author Arundhati Roy yesterday said she was returning her 1989 National Award for Best Screenplay to protest against &lsquo;ideological viciousness&rsquo; in the country.
<img title="Arundhati Roy" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/2015/nov/Arundhati-Roy.jpg" alt="Arundhati Roy" /> Arundhati Roy
&ldquo;I am very pleased to have found (from somewhere way back in my past) a National Award that I can return, because it allows me to be a part of a political movement initiated by writers, filmmakers and academics in this country who have risen up against a kind of ideological viciousness and an assault on our collective IQ that will tear us apart and bury us very deep if we do not stand up to it now,&rdquo; Roy said in an article published in a daily.
The winner of the Booker Prize for The God of Small Things, Roy won the national award for the film In Which Annie Gives it Those Ones.
&ldquo;These horrific murders are only a symptom of a deeper malaise. Life is hell for the living too. Whole populations &mdash; millions of Dalits, Adivasis, Muslims and Christians &mdash; are being forced to live in terror, unsure of when and from where the assault will come,&rdquo; she said.

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Noted activist and author Arundhati Roy yesterday said she was returning her 1989 National Award for Best Screenplay to protest against &lsquo;ideological viciousness&rsquo; in the country.

Millions are being forced to live in terror: Arundhati Roy

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