City filmmaker returns National Award

SHILLONG: Joining the bandwagon of writers and film makers, a documentary film maker from Shillong, Tarun Bhartiya on Thursday returned the National Award bestowed on him in 2009 to protest against the alleged growing intolerance in the country.
Bhartiya had won the award for “Best Editor Non Fiction” for In Camera — Diaries of a Documentary Cameraman, in 2009.
In a letter addressed to President Pranab Mukherjee, Bhartiya said he was returning his National Award, the Rajat Kamal, in protest against the “dark times this country is being made to go through”.
“India is being re-fashioned into a Hindutva state,” he added.