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Rokeya Sakhawat  Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain was born in a rich family
Hossain  She was known how to read and write Urdu but with the
support of her elder brother and sister, she learnt to read and
write Bangla and English.
 Her education gave her the power not only to dream and
write, but also to do more – to help other girls go to school and
to build their own dreams.
 In 1910, she started a school for girls in Kolkata, and to this
day, the school is still functioning.
 She wrote a remarkable story titled ‘Sultan’s Dream’, in 1905
at the age of 25years.
 This story imagined a woman 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 men had been sent into seclusion – their
aggressive guns and other weapons of war defeated by the
brain-power of women.