This was stated by Jaspal Singh, Vice-Chancellor of Punjabi University, while presiding over the two-day Indian Women Writers Conference jointly organised by the Punjabi University’s Department of Punjabi Language Development and Sahit Academy in New Delhi.

Singh said women had been subjected to immense social, cultural and spiritual discrimination and upheavals, causing their exclusion from the world of letters and reducing them from subjects to objects.

Parental tutoring in India is also the cause of pushing them into the backyards of intellectual horizons, leaving little scope for them to compete with their male counterparts.

Our society, he said, though is metamorphosing into a world seemingly better for our womenfolk, yet much is needed to be done to salvage the honour due towards them and provide them level fields in all walks of life.

He also honoured all the women writers from 21 states of India, who are participating in the conference.

Noted litterateur and Vice-President of the Sahit Academy, New Delhi, Dr Sutinder Singh Noor urged the participating women writers to use the platform for evolving a befitting model of feminism suiting the India ethos.

While talking about the existing multi-feministic patterns, he emphasised upon deciphering the wounded psychology of our women for which the women writers can play a pivotal role.