Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his NDA government have been blamed for everything. From the lynching of an individual who happened to be Muslim to the recent suicide of a research scholar of the University of Hyderabad (UoH) who happened to belong to a non-upper caste community (whether he was a Dalit or from a backward community is disputed), Modi's 'old admirers' from the days of his Chief Ministership of Gujarat have been relentless in applying all the tricks of the trade to defame and discredit him. Needless to say that they have got a good share of publicity to sustain their operations strategically targeted against the growing rejuvenation of an ancient nation and its cultured way of life in which sectarianism of any sort had no place at all. But what might have come as a bolt from the blue to this marginal fringe of ideologically-driven activists was the announcement by Sahitya Akademi on Friday that some of the writers, including Nayantara Sahgal, have agreed to take back the awards they had returned citing 'growing intolerance' in the country. Even before the news of famous Hindi writer Ashok Vajpayee returning his D.Lit could sink in and create a fresh wave of ripples, Sahitya Akademi president Vishwanath Prasad Tiwari told reporters that "... Akademi has started sending back the awards to the writers…It has already been sent to Nayantara Sahgal. Another writer Nand Bhardwaj has also agreed to take back the award. It would be sent to other writers as well." Tiwari added that there was no provision for returning the award and the Akademi has already taken care of the sentiments of writers by unequivocally condemning the attack on freedom of expression. The fringe warriors got a bloody nose on Friday when they were informed of the Supreme Court's refusal to grant their tempestuous goddess Arundhati Roy permission to stay away from personal appearance next Monday from the contempt of court case at the Nagpur branch of Mumbai High Court. The contempt notice was issued by the HC for her article in a weekly magazine questioning the continued incarceration of Delhi University professor G N Saibaba arrested in 2014 by Gadchirolly police for alleged links with Maoist murderers. If one were to go by what her advocate Chander Uday Singh stated at the SC, it may appear that the feisty lady, who misses no opportunity to curse India, Indians, their culture and polity for the sake of minting dollars by way of fees, is scared of "the passion has beefed up and effigies are burnt". Of course it was a stratagem and it failed. Used to most cunning arguments by most crafty lawyers, SC judges told the lady's advocate "You should have no fear in appearing in court. You go and appear. We are here. We have issued the process and we are looking into it. We have thought about it carefully," the bench comprising Justice J S Khehar and Justice C Nagappan said.When the counsel once again sought for personal exemption on Monday, the bench said, "We don't want to grant you or deny you." Apparently, Modi can't run away from what even the SC does in a normal case of contempt of court. For he has taken away many of the entitlements India's left, liberal, progressive and secular intellectuals have come to accept as their birth right. Ramchandra Guha, whom Arundhati once famously described as 'cricket historian', said Modi government was the "most anti-intellectual" dispensation the country ever had. Expressing concerns over increasing threats to freedom of expression, Guha came down heavily on the BJP-led government for being "hostile" to the writers' community. Whether he had Arundhati's plight, in a Freudian backlash, at the bac