Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932) and Begum Sufia Kamal (1911-1999), two icons in Bangla literature and culture, were not kins but kindred spirits. January 16, 2023 ...

The picture of Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain on the wall of DU's TSC was defaced with black paint. This heinous act was allegedly carried out by a girl from Shamsunnahar Hall.

Review of ‘Spider-Mother: The Fiction and Politics of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain’ (Warbler Press Annotated Edition, 2024) edited by Ben Baer and Smaran Dayal ...

Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain was born in 1880 in Rangpur (now in Bangladesh) to a well off but orthodox Bengali Muslim family. The societal norms of the era allowed girls to have religious education ...

Bengali science fiction writer Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain had an unusual gift for seeing the future. The feminist utopia she described in her 1905 novel Sultana's Dream imagined helicopters and solar ...