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Finding Fatima Sheikh: Scholars point to Phule’s letter, photo negative & British-era document

Three years after Google carried a doodle to honour her contributions, a feverish debate over her existence propelled Fatima Sheikh and the question of her legacy into the spotlight.

New book chronicles the inspiring legacy of Savitribai Phule, India’s first female teacher

Published by HarperCollins, ''Savitribai Phule: Her Life, Her Relationships, Her Legacy'' by Reeta Ramamurthy Gupta will be released on 12 October on SoftCover, ThePrint’s online venue to launch non-fiction books.

Why Indian history has forgotten Fatima Sheikh but remembers Savitribai Phule

So little is known about educator and social reformer Fatima Sheikh that even her date of birth is debated.  

Fatima Sheikh: The woman who reshaped Indian education with Savitribai Phule

Many sources claim her birth anniversary falls on 9 January, but not much else is known about her, except that she was India’s first female Muslim teacher.

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Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.