Sahitya Akademi Award

Literary honor in India
Established in 1954
First Awarded in 1955
cash Prize: Rs. 100,000.
The plaque designed by the Indian film-maker Satyajit Ray.

Black Paint attack

The  activist and columinst Sudheendra Kulkarni faced a black paint attack on organizning the book launch of   former Pakistan foreign minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri.

The book name was Neither a Hawk nor a Dove: An Insider's Account of Pakistan's Foreign Policy.

Sudheendra Kulkarni :  Head of ORF (Observer Research Foundation), Former Director of PMO in 1999-2004 (for Atal Bihari Vajpayee).

Observer Research Foundation (ORF) is an independent think tank based in India. 

10 years of RTI

Under the provisions of the Act, any citizen may request information from a "public authority" (a body of Government or "instrumentality of State") which is required to reply expeditiously or within thirty days. The Act also requires every public authority to computerise their records for wide dissemination and to proactively certain categories of information so that the citizens need minimum recourse to request for information formally. 

It was commenced on 12th  October 2015.