Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain’s Padmarag and Sultana’s dream: a short book review.

Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain is one of those writers who touched the deepest recesses of my heart with her poetic and empowering writing. While Sultana's dream is a story of a feminist utopia where women, with the help of science and technology, win wars and preside over the nation, Padmarag is a realistic version of it. …

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Why is it necessary for you to call yourself a feminist if you are one?

I have had this argument with a ton of people and they all state the same reasons like "modern feminism is not about equality anymore" and "feminists hate men and I don't hate men, so, I am not a feminist." But what do you really know other than some claims you heard off the internet? …