august 28, 2005 Shewrite is a film about four women who refuse to buckle down to societal pressures of propriety and write poetry that is provocative and bold, says Mala Kumar.

[...] «We read about the attack on these women by lyricists in Tamil Nadu and were keen to document the stand taken by these women,» says Dr Anjali Monteiro, Professor and Head, Unit for Media and Communications, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai.

...Says Malathy Maitri, a Pondicherry-based Dalit and Marxist activist and founder member of Anangu, «We were upset that people who use double entendre and bad language to attract people should call our poetry 'vulgar'.»
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