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Liberate women’s writing from cultural yoke: professor

Release: Thulasaiah Vandayar, Correspondent, AVVM Pushpam College, is releasing the souvenir and K. Chellappan, former Head, English Department, Bharathidasan University, is receiving the copy in Thanjavur on Saturday.

THANJAVUR: The society must perform its duty of extricating women’s language from suppression caused by cultural stereotypes, K. Chellappan, former Head, Department of English, Bharathidasan University, said.

Delivering his key-note address at the inaugural of the two-day University Grant Commission-sponsored national conference on ‘cultural, social and literary explorations in Indian feminist writers in English and their relevance today’ organised by the English Department of the AVVM Sri Pushpam College, Poondi, near here recently, Dr. Chellappan said that the first feminist was Eve, a pioneer in claiming equality. On the contrary, in India, we made our mothers, wives and daughters slaves.

Bankim Chandra Chatterjee’s Anandamath discusses the crises of women which is entirely the crisis of India. Dr. Chellappan called Silappathikaram a proto-feminist text and insisted feminism is about sisterhood.

College secretary and correspondent K. Thulasiah Vandayar rendered the inaugural address and released the souvenir.

He reiterated women’s emancipation was possible when they realised the mystic power, cultivating it by practice and setting a clear vision. He further suggested that writing should give energy and be a lesson to life.

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