At the time of her death she wrote "Women's Rights"

International Women's Day is celebrated in our country on March 8.

After celebrating through various events, he is the one again. I mean, everything is the same again.

There are many reasons.

But there seems to be a reason - we forget the people whose work has moved them from the past to the present.

I forget the abandonment of the people, their dreams behind the abandonment.

Begum Rokeya. One such social reformer. One and a half years ago, she had a dream of a world, much of which is real today.

Sultana's dream

Sultanaj Dream or Sultana's dream.

The play was written by Begum Rokeya in 1905. It speaks of a women's place where women are in charge of everything. The state has become a world of science fiction, especially due to a group of talented women scientists.

These great scientists have discovered flying cars, electrical equipment and all the techniques of weather control. There is no need for human labor due to efficiency in solar energy and automated agriculture.

The men of the kingdom live in an isolated world behind the curtain (the way women lived then)!

There is no crime in that society based on compassion and humanity. No defilement.

'Women can do whatever men can'

Through metaphor, Begum Rokeya has highlighted the backwardness of women of that time and its futility with logic.

For example, Begum Rokeya refutes the argument that the brains of men are big and the bodies of women are weak.

But even then, these two people are subservient. They are not more powerful than humans. Then why would women be despised just for this reason!

Begum Rokeya said, 'Women can do whatever men can.'

There is no doubt that after one and a half years, today's women have not been able to make it all real, but they have done a lot.

Sounds like a story

However, the sesame sesame labor that she had to go through may sound a bit like a story to today's teenagers.

Begum Rokeya was born on December 9, 180. Her father was a zamindar. Educated, knowledgeable, proficient in six languages. But he could not teach his daughters to read for fear of social stigma. Stay away from studies, girls were allowed to go out.

However, just as women have a role to play in men's success, so too do men have a role to play in women's success.

Begum Rokeya's elder brother Ibrahim Saber did not want his sisters to be left behind. So when everyone in the house fell asleep, he would sit with his sisters. He used to teach Arabic, Persian, Urdu and Bengali by lighting candles.

Marriage and the new chapter of life

At one point, an initiative was taken to marry the teenager Rokeya.

Here also elder brother Saber introduced wisdom. He chose a widowed man 20 years older than his sister as the pot.

Deputy Magistrate Syed Sakhawat Hossain was a highly educated and generous man. Ibrahim Saber understood that if he married his sister here, her education would not stop.

That is what happened. After marriage, Begum Rokeya started her education with her husband.

She had already learned some Urdu. After marriage, that education spread further with the help of her Urdu-speaking husband.

She also learned English very well from her husband. He could compose beautiful English.

However, she had a deep interest in the Bengali language. She did not leave Bengal. She started writing in Bengali.

The beginning of her literary career was also inspired by her husband. Her writing career began in 1902 with the creation of a Bengali prose work called 'Pipasa'.

Her notable literary works include the collection of essays 'Matichur' and the science fiction novel 'Sultana's Dream'.

'Sultana's dream' is considered as one of the milestones of feminist literature in the world.

Coming out of the inner city

Her married life did not last long. Her husband Syed Sakhawat Hossain died on 3 May 1909.

After the death of her husband, a new Begum Rokeya made her debut. Apart from writing, she focused on bringing change in the society and spreading women's education.

In fact, she did not stop just by talking or spreading his thoughts in the intellectual circles. Became a novice in real work.

On October 1, 1909, she established the Sakhawat Memorial Girls' School in Bhagalpur.

A bench, five students.

But the education of Muslim women was considered a crime in the society of that time. Tried a lot. After taking the burqa, he went from house to house and took initiative to collect students. But in the end she was forced to give up.

She moved to Calcutta. She was 30 years old then.

In Calcutta - without relatives, without acquaintances

Sakhawat Memorial Girls' School has started its activities anew in a city without relatives.

This time the situation got a little better. Two benches and eight students.

A woman- no institutional degree, no experience working outside the home, no known people in the new town! The only capital is his strong morale and deep faith.

The morale is that one day he will be able to bring women out of this ignorance and unconsciousness. And the belief is that only knowledge can liberate them.

I did not see the meeting!

At that time the curtain system was so strict that Begum Rokeya had to hold meetings at her school from behind the curtain.

The mentality of women at that time can be understood from an article written by Begum Rokeya-

“Once, as a result of many possible efforts, a woman from an educated Muslim family was brought to a meeting of the Anjuman (Women's Association founded by Begum Rokeya) after being tempted in various ways. The meeting was completed on time. The assembled women got ready to return home. At this time the newcomer woman came in front of me and said, she called the meeting and left the house, but I could not see the meeting! ”

However, in addition to social adversity, she also had to face economic adversity. Begum Rokeya kept Rs 30,000 in a bank called Burma Bank at that time. One day she found out that the bank had gone bankrupt.

Anjumane Khawatine Islam - Today's Women's Association

At one stage, she realized that this school could not be sustained without organizing Muslim women.

So in 1918 he established Khawatin Islam in Anjuman. That means Islamic Women's Association. Today's women's association is a transformation.

She had to endure many adversities while trying to organize this. But he remained steadfast in the face of all adversity.

The skin of the skin should be thickened

She once said to his colleagues, "If you want to do social work, you have to make your skin so thick that ignoring the slander and insult will not hurt him at all." The skull must be strengthened so that the thunderbolts can all resist and return. ”

In fact, whether a person grows up or wins tomorrow depends on his courage and ability to endure this condemnation.

Begum Rokeya did so. The few students who studied in her school have played an active role in the women's awakening of Bengal in the mountains.

Where girls have reached today as women, they would not have reached where they are, if it were not for the contribution of a thinker like Begum Rokeya for the betterment of women.

Karmic death

Begum Rokeya is also the proof of how a woman's death can be a tragic death.

She worked at the school until the day before his death. She used to write every night.

She did the same on the night of his death. And at that moment she fell down with her head on the table in the lap of death.

In the morning, without getting any response, the door was opened and it was seen that she was no more in this world. Eternal journey has traveled. Her birthday and death day are the same - December 9.

The last article was on women's rights

The last of her writings, which she wrote, was unfinished-her title was Women's Rights. That is, he sacrificed his life

This shows how much the Creator accepted her, that she dedicated her life to the cause for which he was working, and that she died.

Our tribute to this short-lived woman.