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Although popular Dalit writer and thinker Chandrabhan Prasad feels what Ashis Nandy said at the Jaipur Literature Festival was undignified and vulgar, he tells Rediff.com's Sheela Bhatt that matter should have ended once the professor apologised.
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An MP from Karimnagar district in Andhra Pradesh on Friday filed a complaint against eminent scholar Ashis Nandy, for making remarks alleged to be anti-Dalit at the Jaipur Literature Festival, police said.
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Jaipur Literature Festival organisers Tuesday got interim relief from the Rajasthan high court which stayed the arrest of the event producer Sanjoy Roy in connection with author Ashis Nandy's controversial remarks regarding Dalits.
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Dalit writer and activist Kancha Ilaiah on Monday sought to put a lid on the controversy over sociologist Ashis Nandy' remarks on Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, saying it was "a bad statement with good intentions".
The Jaipur police have sought the video of author Ashis Nandy's controversial comments at the Jaipur Literature Festival -- that people from Other Backward Classes, Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe communities were the "most corrupt". Nandy has left the festival, skipping the rest of the event amid protests demanding his arrest.
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