#THEWOMEN - Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain Rokeya is one of few women from our history who challenged the social injustice against women and girls. She was a firm believer in the use of education as a tool of liberation and empowerment. Rokeya and the young girls of her age were taught Arabic and Urdu but were kept away from learning Bengali and English precisely because they were spoken by non-Muslims as well. This was one way of keeping these women from being “contaminated” by the