Tahmima Anam & Megha Mohan

This inspiring conversation brings together two authors that imagine and confront through fiction and non-fiction what happens when women challenge the structures that seek to contain them. 

Megha Mohan, BBC global correspondent, has gone in search of feminist movements from South Korea to elder women co-housing in Paris and the Rain Queens of South Africa. She is joined by Tahmima Anam, author of the Bengal Trilogy, whose searing new novel Uprising inspired by the real women of Banishanta, Bangladesh turns collective resignation into ferocious revolt on a desolate, sinking island. 

‘Since history is often literally His Story, it’s a helpful corrective to have books…that are about women who have always tried to control our own destinies.’
Gloria Steinem, writer and activist 

Megha Mohan and Tahmima Anam will be talking to publisher & chair of Virago Press Lennie Goodings.

In association with Lahore literary Festival, promoting stories and writers of South Asian heritage.