Miratun nahar biography definition

“I’m excited and honoured. We started this project more than 10 years ago,” says an elated Herguera. Since 2005, Herguera has been visiting India to conduct workshops and co-produce animation films with Indian filmmakers. It was a chance encounter on a rainy day in Delhi that made her aware of Sultana’s Dream and Rokeya.

A still from El Sueño de la Sultana

“It was 2012. I was going to meet a friend when it started raining. So I took shelter in an art gallery, which had a show on Gond art. There, a book cover caught my attention. It was published by Tara Books, a red cover depicting a woman piloting a spaceship.” She had to pick it up. In the book, Sultana’s dreamland has men who are no longer a threat and women use science to rule the country. When she flipped the book, the writer’s bio surprised her.

Born in 1880, in undivided Bengal, Rokeya Khatun had an unquenchable th