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Men Get Very Uncomfortable if a Woman Has an Opinion (INVC)

Shunali Khullar Shroff

Shunali Khullar Shroff attended the Day 2 of Sahitya Aaj Tak in capital. At the event, she talked about her new book, English being a language of India and how men get vile on social media.  Author Shunali Khullar Shroff attended the Day 2 of Sahitya Aaj Tak in the capital today on November 2. The author of Love in the Time of Affluenza spoke at her session titled Love, Marriage and Making the Valentino Gown fit again.

At her session, the celebrated author spoke about men trolling women on Twitter, her book Love In The Time Of Affluenza and English as the language of our country.

ABOUT HER BOOK LOVE IN THE TIME OF AFFLUENZA

When I started writing the book it was going to be a social commentary. I find it easier to get inside the head of a woman. The book exists in upper strata of society, a lot of issues like patriarchy and double standards that are there. Society looks at women from a different lens as compared to men. I started to tell this story of how if a woman ever strays outside of marriage, she is written off entirely as a human being. Everything about her is then just a shade of black. Women get judged a lot in a society.

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