SHILLONG, Nov 5 - Meghalaya-based film maker Tarun Bhartiya today returned the National Award he received in 2009 joining a host of writers, filmmakers and scientists in protest against the �growing intolerance� in the country.
Bhartiya who won the award for editing documentary film �In Camera � Diaries of a Documentary Cameraman�.
�Today the unease has grown and examples of the truly greats � the ninety year-old Krishna Sobti, for instance � returning their awards gives me a feeling that I don�t need to keep mine either,� Bhartiya said in a letter to President Pranab Mukherjee. Stating that the country was being made to go through �dark times�, Bhartiya went on to say that �this darkness was in the making for long: it hasn�t descended suddenly upon us.� � PTI
