After the controversy over 'good governance day', a three-day writers' meet being organised by Sahithya Akademi under the Union Culture Ministry has come in for flak from a noted Tamil writer since it starts on Christmas Day and focusses on Sanskrit.
The Ministry of Culture and Banaras Hindu University are organising the meet for "multilingual writers under Sanskrit" from Dec 25 to 27 at the varsity premises in Varanasi, sources in Tamil literary world said.
"They have deliberately chosen a holiday, the Christmas Day for the meet..This should not have been done," Gnani Sankaran, noted writer and political commentator told PTI.
Hitting out at the Centre, he said,"the BJP regime is bent upon either breaking up or communalising secular institutions built by Jawharlal Nehru like the Sahitya Akademi."
The importance being accorded to Sanskrit was unmistakable, Sankaran, a former AAP member who unsuccessfully contested an assembly byelection in May this year, said and wondered if a renowned institution like the Akademi had begun giving less importance to other Indian languages.
The Union HRD Ministry courted controversy over a circular by Navodya Vidyalaya Samiti (NVS) asking all its schools to observe December 25 as 'Good Governance Day'.
