Women yet to achieve complete empowerment: Tasneem Khan

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Press Trust of India Jaipur
Last Updated : Jan 21 2017 | 7:32 PM IST
Women have achieved empowerment to a certain extent but their problems have not vanished completely as they continue to fight for their rights, novelist Tasneem Khan said today.
"Women have become empowered financially, socially and politically over the years but this will not be a complete empowerment unless the outlook of the male is changed. Male wants to dominate women and this approach needs to be changed, she said at a session in Jaipur Literature Festival.
Discussing her novel, Yeh Mere Rehnuma, Khan said that it is important for a woman to have a positive environment in her family so that she can express well outside the home.
"If a woman has the support of her family, her expression in the outer world becomes stronger," she said, while sharing her experience of writing the novel.
Hindi writer Manisha Kulshreshtha talked about contemporary writing in Rajasthan.
"It is important to write in some modern format in order to reach out to the youth through the writing," Kulshreshtha, who has written four novels and six short story collection, said.
The women authors were discussing contemporary writing in a session, titled 'Naari Chetna: Naye Swar'.

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First Published: Jan 21 2017 | 7:32 PM IST

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