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Day 2 of the event involved
discussion about the
relationship of women writers
and crime writing, 'When
Women Write Crime" was the
focus of the
SheThePeople.TV's Women
Writers' Festival 2018 panel.
The panel was informational
and insightful one with
responses from panelists
comprising of crime
journalists and writers. Puja
Changoiwala, Archana Sarat,
Aarti V Raman and Annie Zaidi
talk about the research that
goes hand in hand with being
a crime writer and the
expanding genre of crime
fiction, among other things,
panel was moderated by
Meghna Pant.
According to Archana Sarat, a
2015 statistic by National
Crime Records Bureau
revealed that a 2.24 million
crimes against women were 
reported in the past decade.
"Writing needs to be
designed by the author so
as to say what it has to
naturally and not in a
manner that is preachy."

                      - Annie Zaidi
The sub topics of the
discussion were whether the
crime writing is male centric
only to which Puja
Changoiwala's viewpoint was
that it's a matter of expertise
and is independent of the
gender. It also focused on the
researching aspect of crime
fiction writing. The writer has
to go beyond the Wikipedia in
order to add details in the
book.
Puja Changoiwala’s novel The
Front Page Murders is about a
serial killer in which she had
to trace 20 years of his life.
This took extremely intensive
research where she
interviewed the people
related to or who knew him
and even interviewed the
killer himself. Even the
publishers are seeing demand
of more true crime stories
and this is one genre that is
taking off.
You can catch this
conversation on
SheThePeople.TV’s Facebook
page.
The event was organized by SheThePeople.Tv in Mumbai.
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