Karnataka: Kannada Sahitya Sammelana event accused of excluding and ignoring Muslim writers and their work.
Kannada Sahitya Sammelana in Karnataka’s Haveri ignored and excluded Muslim writers and poets, failing to acknowledge them.
When the Kannada Sahitya Parishad announced the names of writers and poets who were to take part in the Sammelana, some writers objected the exclusion of Muslim writers from the list. The state has hundreds of Muslim Kannada writers, however, only a few were considered for the Sammelana.