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Savitribai Phule 💛
Savitribai Phule, India's first female teacher, was a pioneer in women's education in India, and empowered a lot of women with the help of her husband, Jyotirao Phule.

Born in a family of socially backward Mali community, Savitribai was illiterate when she married to Jyotiba at the tender age of nine. Fortunately, Jyotiba strongly believed in the power of education in removing social inequalities. He decided to start this revolution at home by teaching his wife to read and write, much against the family diktat.

Savitribai soon started teaching girls at Maharwada in Pune. Later, the couple along with Sagunabai, Jyotiba's mentor and an activist, started their own school at Bhide Wada, which became India's first girl's school run by Indians. Enrolment of students from the untouchable community angered orthodox upper-caste
Hindus. So, with the intention to close those schools, they spread rumours about Savitribai; her husband would die prematurely due to her schooling, her food is changing into worms and also that educated women start writing letters to unknown men. When these tales didn't discourage Savitribai, they started attacking her on her way to the school by throwing cow dung, eggs, tomatoes and stones at her. Gradually, Savitribai gained the courage to respond to these insults, saying, "Your efforts inspire me to continue my work. May God bless you." However, this public hooliganism stopped one day after Savitribai slapped a trouble monger and this act of hers became sensational news across Pune.

In 1897, when Maharashtra was hit by Bubonic Plague, she responded quickly by setting up a clinic for patients with the support of her son, a medical professional. Savitribai died on March 10 of the same year, after getting infected while physically carrying an infected patient herself.

In commemoration of Savitribai, the University of Pune was renamed as Savitribai Phule Pune University in 2015. Her birthday is celebrated as "Balika Din" in Maharashtra every year.

Gaidinliu 🧡
Gaidinliu was a Naga spiritual and political leader who led a revolt against British rule in India. She was from the Rongmei Naga tribe (also known as Kabui). Her family belonged to the ruling clan of the Nungkao (or Longkao) village in the present-day Tousem sub-division of Tamenglong District, Manipur. She did not have a formal education due to the lack of schools in the area.

At the age of 13, she joined the Heraka religious movement of her cousin Haipou Jadonang. The movement later turned into a political movement seeking to drive out the British from Manipur and the surrounding Naga areas. Within the Heraka faith, she came to be considered an incarnation of the Goddess Cherachamdinliu.

Gaidinliu was arrested in 1932 at the age of 16, and was sentenced to life imprisonment by the British rulers. Jawaharlal Nehru met her at Shillong Jail in 1937, and promised to pursue her release. Nehru gave her the title of "Rani" ("Queen"), and she gained local popularity as Rani Gaidinliu.

She was released in 1947 after India's independence, and continued to work for the upliftment of her people. An advocate of the ancestral Naga religious practices, she staunchly resisted the conversion of Nagas to Christianity. She was honoured as a freedom fighter and was awarded a Padma Bhushan by the Government of India.

Her fierce warrior mentality sends a shudder down our spine to this day. It is women like her who are and will always be the true heritage of India.

Jyoita Mondal 💚
Mondal comes from a traditional Hindu household and suffered a lot of discrimination in her childhood because of her gender identity. She dropped out of school after class 10th, slept at bus stands and begged on streets.

She moved to Islampur in Uttar Dinajpur district and worked for the upliftment of the transgender community. Simultaneously, she also completed her studies through correspondence and got a degree in law. In 2010, she was the first trans person from her district to get a voter ID.

She also started her own organisation, Dinajpur Notun Alo (Dinajpur New Light), that is currently reaching out to and helping thousands of people in her district. In 2015, Mondal was involved with others in setting up a home for older people who were HIV positive and forming patients' welfare committees.

On July 8, 2017, 29-year old Mondal became the first transgender judge of a Lok Adalat from West Bengal, India. She attended office as judge of a Lok Adalat at Islampur in the North Dinajpur, where some of her first cases involved the recovery of loans made by banks.

A transwoman is still a complete woman, no doubt, but it is so inspiring to see Jyoita Mondal overcome the barriers of society and uplift her community along with so many others.

Ismat Chughtai ❤️
She began writing in her early teens, stories that she claimed were around her and just waiting to be penned. She was inspired by her elder brother, Mirza Azim Beg Chughtai, who was a noted novelist who used playful humour in his books. Her literary career began with the publication of her short story Fasadi (The Trouble Maker) in a literary journal called Saqui in 1938. The story was so well written that many of her critics claimed her brother had ghost-written it for her!

As a member of Progressive Writers’ Association, Chughtai met Rashid Jahan (1905-1952), a noted writer-director who kicked off a new era in Urdu literature written by women. She instantly decided to start using her creative abilities to advocate for human rights, and her work spoke volumes for liberation and equality.

In her book Yahan Se Wahan Tak, Chughtai wrote, “And now it’s important that we develop self-confidence. And only Progressive literature can produce self-confidence. It will be disappointing if our writers don’t use their pen for the betterment of the common people, because if writers, journalists and thinkers turn away from present-day circumstances and write merely for personal gain, their work will lack vigour, and anything that is lifeless is not meaningful.”

Chughtai explored her unapologetic feminism by committing to paper Urdu stories of raw and unconventional themes such as gender inequality and same-sex relationships. She was among the first few writers who stood up against the exploitative patriarchal structure of society at the time.

She was a writer, an educator and an icon of women's empowerment. But, above all else, she was unapologetic and outspoken. Urdu writer Ismat Chughtai understood the complexities of a woman's mind, and her work reflected the different shades of the woman of her time. To date, she is universally regarded as one of the four pillars of Urdu fiction in our time, among her contemporaries Saadat Hasan Manto, Krishan Chander and Rajinder Singh Bedi. Equally importantly, she will be remembered for lifting the veil on women and issues that were best left ‘behind the curtain'.

- Abid Khan for Live History India