The panel consisted of Salma Bani, Shahnaz Munni, Audity Falguni and Sadeka Halim with poet Shamim Reza moderating the session. “Female writers are often cropped out of the literary landscape,” she said. Journalist and poet Shahnaz Munni talked about the existential battles women authors face every day. In reply to the question, “Why women writers lag behind?” she replied that society still couldn’t think of women as writers. “Is there any syndicate made up of male writers?” She asked, triggering notable reactions among her fellow panelists and the audience.

Source: Dhaka Tribune November 19, 2018 09:45 UTC