Exploring lesser known History
From the beginning the history of Urdu Novel writing was pegged around women and their issues. The first one – Maulvi Nazeer Ahmad’s Mirat-ul-Uroos, – published in 1869, and its sequel Binat-un-Nash included, most early novels/stories were about the women, their education and social status.
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She was born in Jorhat Town and pursued her education privately. Later in life, she contributed articles to Assamese journals.
She has worked as Joint Secretary at Red Cross Society, Jorhat during 1946-49 and for the National Savings Scheme in an honorary capacity between 1957-58. She was the Convener of The Women’s department of the Congress at Golaghat since its inception in 1953 till 1956.
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Ameena Mustafa was born on May 19, 1928. After completion of S.S.L.C., Ameena attained a degree in Nursing from Madras.
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बेगम अज़ीज़ा फ़ातिमा इमाम का जन्म 20 फ़रवरी 1924 को पटना में हुआ था। उन्हें अज़ीज़ा इमाम के नाम से
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Sheikh Abdullah, founder of Women’s College in Aligarh, and Begum Waheed Jahan had seven children, five daughters and two sons. Begum Khurshid Jahan, born in 1918, was the youngest daughter.
When she was a kid, there was a rumour that beggars with long beards kidnapped the children and would sell them away. Therefore, Begum Khurshid, when four year old, used to get terrified at the mere sight of any man with a long beard.
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Just the other day I was a part of a live discussion in a Muslim Spaces on Twitter. The topic
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In a chilly winter morning of December 26, 1914, an era where birth of a female child was considered a
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Sayeed 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.
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Syeda Muhammadi Begum was the first woman in the Indian sub-continent to be the editor of a weekly magazine, ‘Tehzeeb-e-Niswaan’.
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‘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.
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वो साल 1951 था ऑस्ट्रिया के विएना शहर में अंतर्राष्ट्रीय टेबल टेनिस प्रतिस्पर्धा हो रही थी। रोमानिया की एंजेलिका रोज़ेनु
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Begum 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.
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A Muslim Lady, charged with the act of waging ‘the war against the Crown’, was brought into the court of
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By, Saba Tabassum Beauty cannot be analyzed with ease. Balancing beauty; externally and internally, is in fact quite rare. In
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भारत छोड़ो आंदोलन में महिलाओं की भरपूर भागीदारी थी। उन्होंने आंदोलन में न सिर्फ़ हिस्सा लिया बल्कि पुरुषों की बराबरी
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John 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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Masihul Mulk Hakim Mohammed Ajmal Khan was a man of multi-dimensional personality. His whole life was a saga of
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British writer and explorer Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 – 1762). How One Daring Woman Introduced the Idea of Smallpox Inoculation to England
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The women’s day was brought to light in the early 1900s where this day was first observed on February 28,
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Imagine a mother of 12 children who feels agitated at the very sight of paper and a book. Someone who
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