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.
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.
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.
The US and Israel’s assassinations of Iranian leadership ended up bestowing martyrdom on those killed. Shias saw the deaths as a continuity of martyrdom from the Battle of Karbala.
India’s fast-growing data centre sector may strain state electricity networks; Central Electricity Authority has urged Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu to boost capacity.
Theaterisation, which aims to divide the forces into three theatres with specific areas of responsibility, will become the single most far-reaching reform that the Indian military has witnessed since independence.
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.
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