Amazing ...

Guys and (specially) Gals,

http://home.earthlink.net/~twoeyesmagazine/issue2/sultana.htm

Read the above story ... i just finished, and still am kind of trembling with excitement ... feminism, sci-fi or sheer intelligence, and all of it from a lady born in Bengal of 1880 - who "was not allowed to attend school, or even to learn Bengali or English, to prevent contamination from non-Muslim ideas" [http://www.sdnpbd.org/sdi/international_days/Rokeya/index.html ] ...
She started learning English only after her marriage, and "wrote Sultana's Dream [the story in the above link] in 1905 to test her proficiency in English"

I am not only astonished at her talent but also because today is the first time I read about her / her work.

Hope some of u guys would have known her before reading this post ...

Shadkam Islam
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