Over 100 years after she had sowed the seeds of learning among the Muslim women of Bengal, the life and literature of the lost icon — Begum Rokeya Sakhawat — is once again creating ripples in the academic and cultural circles, courtesy a trio of young British theatre students.
Currently on a tour of Bengal, the students of London’s Rose Bruford College — Alia Ruth Wilson, Claudia Haley and R M Leaver — are screening the recordings of a play titled “Rokeya’s Dream” — based on her satire, A Sultan’s Dream — in different universities across the state.
Their interest in Rokeya was generated after they attended a series of lectures of Shaheen Chowdhury of Westcombe Mahila Sangha, a Bangladeshi Women’s group of south East London, in which she talked about the life and works of the Begum.
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