chandigarh celebrating the contribution of women poets and writers from different parts of state india and world the 17th allindia poetess conference aipc will begin at punjab arts council punjab kala bhawand on thursdaythe 3day conference will witness the participation of over 300 women poets from across the nation and world reading on the theme endless plight of women in indian literature in languages like kannada bangla marathi gujarati tamil urdu hindi and kashmiri besides punjabifounded in 1999 with its first member and legendary punjabi writer and poet amrita pritam the allindia poetess conference has been supporting and highlighting the works of over 8000 women from across 40 countries across the globespeaking to toi dr lari azad founder and national coordinator aipc and the hod for department of history meerut university said the united nations has declared us the only organisation of this magnitude working and supporting educated women in the worldtalking about the objective of this organization zaidi said we believe in lingual harmony and we revere all languages as twins punjabi is as important as kannada bangla or tamil i think lingual harmony stands for national integration and women are the most important part of the society hence i believe that the woman is the pillar of indian culture