Mysuru: Women’s issues dominated Day-2 of the 83rd Akhila Bharata Kannada Sahitya Sammelana at Maharaja’s College Grounds. At the morning session today, speaker after speaker spoke on various issues facing women, with a packed audience listening to them with rapt attention. Professor from Mangalore University Dr. Sabhia Bhoomi Gowda speaking on “Exploitation of women under various garbs,” said, “Women today are facing various challenges. If a lonely woman is walking on the road, everyone looks at her with suspicion, giving her a tag that she is a sorcerer, a child-lifter or even a prostitute. They then tie her up to a pole and beat her up. However, people who perpetrate this crime go scot-free.”
