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Ideas Thrown Up For Gender Equality

Ideas Thrown Up For Gender Equality

by The Daily Eye Team February 10 2016, 5:06 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 33 secs

Male chauvinism thrives on the fear of rape among women. When women learn to surpass this fear mentally and physically, it will have no base to exist,” said gender activist M. Sulfath, urging women to come out paying no heed to rape threat.

The discussion on ‘Gender Equality and Malayali Society’ was one of the most popular events at the Kerala Literature Festival in Kozhikode on its final day on Sunday. The panel consisted of people representing various spectrums of the fight for gender equality who lucidly explained their point while the audience was equally responsive, demanding the organisers to stretch the session.

 

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Piroj Wadia


PIROJ WADIA is a journalist of long standing, she was Assistant Editor for Cine Blitz and  The Daily,  and   edited TV & Video World, India’s first & only authentic television magazine. She is  equally ardent about television as  she is about films, and critiques both. She has been keenly watching and observing television since the 1990s and has witnessed the industry’s growth and sea changes.   She has  served on the jury for the Indian Television Academy (ITA)  and the  Indian Documentary Producers’ Association (IDPA); and on the script committee of the Children’s Film Society, India (CFSI). Currently, she is  researching on the contribution of the Parsis to Indian cinema.


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