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Masooma Ranalvi

Masooma Ranalvi is a seminal figure in India’s campaign to eradicate Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), primarily known as the founder of WeSpeakOut, the world’s largest survivor-led organisation dedicated to this cause. Through her persistent and courageous...

Masuda Rahman

Masuda Rahman (1885–1926), known by her pen name “Mrs. M. Rahman,” was a pioneering Bengali feminist, polemicist, and secularist, whose influential writings catalysed debate on women’s rights, religious reform, and social progress in colonial...

Mausam Benazir Noor

Mausam Benazir Noor is a prominent Indian politician from West Bengal who serves as a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha for the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC). Born in 1979 in Kolkata, she comes from one of Bengal’s most influential political...

Meena Kumari

Meena Kumari, born Mahjabeen Bano, is revered as one of the most prominent and influential actresses in the history of Hindi cinema. Over a career spanning three decades, she starred in more than 90 films, leaving behind a legacy of powerful performances that have...