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The Bengal Renaissance: Women Who Wrote the Future
We often associate the Bengal Renaissance with men like Raja Ram Mohan Roy and Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, but the movement was equally driven by women who defied social conventions to claim their intellectual space. This episode explores the lives of Rashsundari Debi, whose autobiography 'Amar Jiban' became a landmark in Bengali literature despite being written in secret; Kadambini Ganguly, who broke gender barriers to become one of India’s first female doctors; and Begum Rokeya, who imagined a feminist utopia in her story 'Sultana's Dream'. From the restrictive…
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