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Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
46 books112 followersBegum Roquia Sakhawat Hussain, popularly known as Begum Rokeya, was born in 1880 in the village of Pairabondh, Mithapukur, Rangpur, in what was then the British Indian Empire and is now Bangladesh.
Begum Rokeya was an inspiring figure who contributed much to the struggle to liberate women from the bondage of social malaises. Her life can be seen in the context of other social reformers within what was then India. To raise popular consciousness, especially among women, she wrote a number of articles, stories and novels, mostly in Bengali.
Rokeya used humor, irony, and satire to focus attention on the injustices faced by Bengali-speaking Muslim women. She criticized oppressive social customs forced upon women that were based upon a corrupted version of Islam, asserting that women fulfilling their potential as human beings could best display the glory of Lord. She wrote courageously against restrictions on women in order to promote their emancipation, which, she believed, would come about by breaking the gender division of labor. She rejected discrimination for women in the public arena and believed that discrimination would cease only when women were able to undertake whatever profession they chose. In 1926, Begum strongly condemned men for withholding education from women in name of religion as she addressed the bengal women's education conference:
"The opponents of the female education say that women will be unruly...fie !they call themselves muslims and yet go against the basic tenet of islam which gives equal right to education. If men are not led astray once educated, why should women?"
Begum Rokeya was an inspiring figure who contributed much to the struggle to liberate women from the bondage of social malaises. Her life can be seen in the context of other social reformers within what was then India. To raise popular consciousness, especially among women, she wrote a number of articles, stories and novels, mostly in Bengali.
Rokeya used humor, irony, and satire to focus attention on the injustices faced by Bengali-speaking Muslim women. She criticized oppressive social customs forced upon women that were based upon a corrupted version of Islam, asserting that women fulfilling their potential as human beings could best display the glory of Lord. She wrote courageously against restrictions on women in order to promote their emancipation, which, she believed, would come about by breaking the gender division of labor. She rejected discrimination for women in the public arena and believed that discrimination would cease only when women were able to undertake whatever profession they chose. In 1926, Begum strongly condemned men for withholding education from women in name of religion as she addressed the bengal women's education conference:
"The opponents of the female education say that women will be unruly...fie !they call themselves muslims and yet go against the basic tenet of islam which gives equal right to education. If men are not led astray once educated, why should women?"
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November 19, 2018
প্রায় ৮ টি প্রবন্ধ ও ২ টি ছোট গল্প মিলিয়ে বেগম রোকেয়ার শ্রেষ্ঠ প্রবন্ধ প্রকাশিত হয়েছে। এতে তাঁর সাহিত্য জগতে হাতেখড়ি করা 'পিপাসা' গল্প এবং অন্যতম শ্রেষ্ঠ অবদান 'সুলতানার স্বপ্ন' রয়েছে। বাকি প্রবন্ধগুলোর মধ্যে 'নিরীহ বাঙালি' ও 'স্ত্রীজাতির অবনতি' বিশেষভাবে উল্লেখযোগ্য। সমগ্র বইতে একটি বিষয়ই বারবার উঠে এসেছে আর তা হল নারী শিক্ষা এবং সচেতনতা। নারীদের শিক্ষার পেছনে না দৌড়ালে বেগম রোকেয়ার এতটুকুও ক্ষতি সাধন হতো না। কেননা তিনি ছিলেন জমিদার বংশীয় সন্তান। তবুও তার আপ্রাণ প্রচেষ্টাকে প্রত্যেক বাঙালি মুসলমান নারীর সম্মান এবং শ্রদ্ধার সাথে স্মরণ করা উচিত।
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