The most influential women in the history of medicine
An Italian scholarly female professor, Dorotea Bucca (1360-1436) of the University of Bologna became the first female to teach medicine at the university.
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An Italian scholarly female professor, Dorotea Bucca (1360-1436) of the University of Bologna became the first female to teach medicine at the university.
Read MoreJust the other day I was a part of a live discussion in a Muslim Spaces on Twitter. The topic
Read MoreThe Nazareth Hospital needs an hour to treat people, suffering from COVID-19, residing in this community where patients struggle at home as hospitals choke.
Read More(The following text is a reproduction of an excerpt from Hayat-i-Qudsia, written by Begum Sultan Jahan) No doubt history
Read MoreIn 1977, Dr Sushila Nayar retired from the political arena and continued working for the upliftment of society.
Read More“Come! God has called you into paradise.” An old woman wearing green clothes, which fully covered her body (Burqa), carrying
Read MoreSayeed Sultana was India’s table tennis national champion in 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953 and 1954. Her family migrated to Pakistan in 1956. She too went to Pakistan and continued playing and won championships in 1956, 1957, and 1958. She was the table tennis national champion of Pakistan. In 1959, she retired and passed away on 15th September, 2005.
Read Moreवो दौर 1930 का था जब बेगम हसन इमाम अपने शौहर के कंधे से कंधा मिला कर अंग्रेज़ो की मुख़ाल्फ़त
Read MoreSyeda Muhammadi Begum was the first woman in the Indian sub-continent to be the editor of a weekly magazine, ‘Tehzeeb-e-Niswaan’.
Read More‘Meri na-kaam Mohabbat’ (My failed love), a story written by Begum Hijab Imtiaz Ali when she was 12 years old is often considered as one of the best romantic stories ever written in Urdu. The family she was married into was one of the most progressive Muslim families and encouraged her to learn flying after marriage and becoming mother.
Read Moreवो साल 1951 था ऑस्ट्रिया के विएना शहर में अंतर्राष्ट्रीय टेबल टेनिस प्रतिस्पर्धा हो रही थी। रोमानिया की एंजेलिका रोज़ेनु
Read MoreBegum Jahanara Shahnawaz was one of the two women representatives at the First Round Table Conference, one of the three women representatives at the Second Round Table Conference, and the only woman at the Third Round Table Conference. Later on, when the Joint Select Committee was formed to finalize the Government of India Act, of 1935, Jahanara was the only woman member of it.
Read MoreAccording to historians, Begum Mahboob Fatima was the first Muslim woman in Delhi to have been sentenced to prison for waging ‘the war against the Crown’.
Read MoreIt was 1939 and anti-British sentiments in India were on a rise as the World War had commenced in Europe.
Read MoreBy, Saba Tabassum Beauty cannot be analyzed with ease. Balancing beauty; externally and internally, is in fact quite rare. In
Read MoreThis article throws light on one such Hajj expedition undertaken by Nawab Sikandar Begum of Bhopal.
Read MoreAccording to the Hijri calendar, exactly ninety years ago, Lady Evelyn Murray became the first British born Muslim woman to
Read MoreShubhneet Kaushik प्रसिद्ध स्वतन्त्रता सेनानी दुर्गाबाई देशमुख बनारस हिंदू यूनिवर्सिटी के महिला महाविद्यालय की छात्रा रहीं। वर्ष 1934-36 के
Read MoreThe ouster of Indira Gandhi in 1977 and the formation of the Janata Party-led government at the centre resulted in renewed social and economic tensions in Indian society. The cleavages, which were invisible, came out in the open. On 27th May, 1977, occurred what can be termed as one of the first major massacres of Dalits (lower castes) in Bihar.
Read MoreJohn Venables Sturt, who was stationed near Jhansi during 1857, claimed that the Muslim woman accompanying Rani was Moondar and that only Moondar was martyred on the spot while Rani Lakshmibai could not be killed by the British bullets.
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