Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain and her dreams about 'Ladyland'

Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain and her dreams about 'Ladyland'

Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain(1880-1932)was born into a rich family who owned a lot of land.

Though she knew how to read and write Urdu,she was stopped from learning Bangla and English. In those day, English was seen as a language that would expose girls to new idea,which people thought were not correct for them.therefore ,it was mostly boys who were though English.

Rokeya learnt to read and write Bangla and English with the support of her elder brother and an elder sister.

She went on to become a writer .she wrote a remarkable story titled( Sultana 's'dream )in 1905 to practise her English skill when she was merely 25 years old. This story imagined a women called Sultana .

Who reaches a place called 'Ladyland' 'Ladyland'is a place where women had the freedom to study,work,and  create inventions like controlling rain from the clouds and flying air cars .

In this 'Ladyland',the man had been sent into seclusion their aggressive gun and other weapons of war defeated by the brain power of women .As Sultana travels in ladyland with sister Sarah ,she awakes to realise that she was only dreaming.

In 1910,she started a school for girls in Kolkata,and to this day , the school in functioning.