Panaji: A group of Sahitya Akademi awardee writers from Goa, including Amitav Ghosh, Maria Aurora Couto and others, is of the view that returning awards in protest of "growing intolerance" in country under the Narendra Modi dispensation may not be the right way forward at current juncture.

Unlike their counterparts who are returning awards against the polarised atmosphere and murders of rationalists in recent past, these litterateurs want the Akademi to officially condemn "the threat to their fundamental rights" and are looking forward to the meeting of the literary body's executive council on October 23.