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Originally Posted by ammark
or Monica Ali, Arundhati Roy and Anita Desai?
No mention of half-Bengalis like Norah Jones, Monica Yunus, Anoushka Shankar either?
What about Jahanara Imam and Begum Rokeya Shakhawat Hossain? They did more for Bengali women's emancipation than anyone listed before? Oh wait... they're long dead and from our grandmothers' generation so they dont count!
Honestly if you want a list of notable bengalis, men and women might as well look up wikipedia. You'll find George Orwell there too!
I thought she was in Sweden? Oh well, we learn sth new everyday 
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Rokeya Begum did more more Bengali Womens right to education. She was a very religious woman; an extremely gifted woman; to study in school up to UNI in THOSE DAYS as a hijabi muslim woman along with the Hindus and exceeded is some achievement. Top ten greatest bengalis ever? You bet.
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