Women are moving forward in all fields including education and social activities. In twenty century, they could not come to light and they were banned from leaving the house. But such situation has been changed as women now following Rokeya’s outstanding activities.
“Women are being inspired as they think Rokeya as an idle,” Sanat Kumar Saha, a Rabindra researcher and former professor of Rajshahi University said while addressing a discussion on Monday.
Begum Rokeya Hall of Rajshahi University arranged the discussion titled “We think as human being” marking the 139th birth and 87th death anniversary of Begum Rokeya Shakhawat Hossain, a pioneer in the fight for securing women’s rights in the subcontinent.
She was born at Pairaband village in Rangpur on December 9 in 1880 and passed away on the same date in 1932. Begum Rokeya was a Bengali feminist thinker, educationist, writer, social activist, advocate of women rights, and regarded widely as the pioneer of women’s education in the Indian subcontinent, particularly the Muslim women during the time of the British rule.
Chaired by RU Rokeya hall provost and Folklore department professor Mobarra Siddiqua, RU pro vice chancellors Professor Ananda Kumar Saha, Choudhury M Zakaria, Bangladeshi physicist and emeritus of Physics Arun Kumar Basak addressed on the occasion, among others, as special guests respectively.
RU Drama Association arranged a street drama to mark the Rokeya Day.