by Admin | Jul 28, 2025 | Education
Professor Zakia Ather Siddiqi is a distinguished Indian educationist renowned for her transformative role in advancing women’s education and empowerment. Her career, centred at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), has been marked by visionary leadership and an...
by Admin | Aug 13, 2025 | Urdu Literature
Zakia Mashhadi is a distinguished contemporary figure in Urdu literature, celebrated for a prolific career as a fiction writer and translator spanning over four decades. Born Zakia Sultana in Lucknow in 1944, she pursued higher education in psychology, earning an MA...
by Admin | Aug 13, 2025 | Social Work
Zakia Soman is a leading Indian activist for Muslim women’s rights, renowned for co-founding the Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA) and spearheading landmark legal reforms. Her work has been pivotal in challenging patriarchal structures within her community...
by Admin | Sep 4, 2025 | Urdu Literature
Begum Zakia Sultana Nayyar was a prominent Urdu figure who dedicated her life to the cause of Indian independence, social progress, and the preservation of literature. Born on April 11, 1924, in Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh, she passed away on October 10, 2007, in Delhi,...
by Admin | Sep 4, 2025 | Urdu Literature
Zakira Ghouse (1921–2003) was a pioneering Hyderabadi memoirist whose unpublished work, “Hamārā Daur-i Hayāt” (My Life Course), offers a rare, first-person look into the social history of Muslim women in the 1920s and 1930s India. Born...
