Fatima Sheikh: Google Doodle Honours 1st Indian Muslim Woman Teacher On Her 191st Birthday
New
Age Islam News Bureau
09
January 2022
• Fatima Sheikh: Google Doodle Honours 1st Indian
Muslim Woman Teacher On Her 191st Birthday
• 'Sulli Deals' Auction App Creator: Idea Was to
Defame Indian Muslim Women
• Sana Khan, Pakistani Actress Gets Emotional After
Umrah: 'Allah Gives Us So Much'
• Trafficked Fifteen Bangladeshi Women And Six Kids
Sent Back From India
Compiled by New
Age Islam News Bureau
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Fatima Sheikh: Google Doodle Honours 1st Indian Muslim Woman Teacher On Her 191st Birthday
IMAGE: @Google.com
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By Dipaneeta Das
9th January, 2022
Google is on Sunday celebrating the 191st birth
anniversary of educator and feminist icon Fatima Sheikh with a
meticulously-crafted doodle. She is widely known as India's first Muslim woman
teacher. Hailed as "lifelong champion" in her field, Sheikh,
alongside social reformers Jyotirao and Savitribai Phule, co-founded one of
India's first schools for girls in 1848 and named it the Indigenous Library.
The beautiful Google Doodle in a combination of white,
blue and yellow adds an illustration of Sheikh along with two open books in the
background. The doodle is simple yet presents Sheikh's career at a glance.
Born on January 9, 1831, in Pune, Fatima Sheikh is
hailed for her resilience and pioneering role in supporting the idea of
education for all. As a young girl, she lived with her brother Usman. The
siblings opened their home to Jyotirao and Savitribai Phule after they were
evicted for attempting to educate people from the lower castes. Eventually,
Sheikh, alongside her fellow pioneers and social reformers Jyotirao and
Savitribai Phule, co-founded the Indigenous Library in 1848.
At the library, Sheikh taught communities of
marginalised Dalit and Muslim women and children who were denied entry to
conventional schools on the basis of caste, creed, religion and gender. The
combined efforts were recognised as Satyashodhak Samaj (Truthseekers' Society)
movement. "As a lifelong champion of this movement for equality, Sheikh
went door-to-door to invite the downtrodden in her community to learn at the
Indigenous Library and escape the rigidity of the Indian caste system. She met
great resistance from the dominant classes who attempted to humiliate those
involved in the Satyashodhak movement, but Sheikh and her allies
persisted," Google said in a statement, explaining today's doodle.
Her life stands as a testament to social reforms that
were championed by Indian women in the pre-independence time, despite social
criticism. As per Google's blogspot, Sheikh's story had been "historically
overlooked" until 2014 when the Indian government highlighted her
achievements in Urdu test books alongside other trailblazing Indian educators.
Her work is also of the greatest significance for the oppressed Dalits and
Muslims, as she was among the firsts to launch the joint struggle to make their
voices heard.
Source: Republic World
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'Sulli Deals' Auction App Creator: Idea Was to Defame
Indian Muslim Women
Aumkareshwar Thakur has been
arrested by the Delhi Police (Photo: ANI)
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JANUARY 09, 2022
Delhi Police on Sunday arrested a man from Madhya
Pradesh who is allegedly the creator of the application ‘Sulli Deals’ which
listed Muslim women for ‘auction’ with photographs sourced without permission
and doctored.
The accused, Aumkareshwar Thakur, was apprehended by
the Intelligence Fusion and Strategic Operations (IFSO) of Delhi Police in
Madhya Pradesh’s Indore.
“Aumkareshwar Thakur s/o Sh. Akhilesh Thakur r/o
Newyork City Township, Indore has been apprehended from Indore, Madhya Pradesh.
He was born on 17/01/1996. He has done BCA from IPS Academy, Indore. During
preliminary interrogation, he had admitted that he was member of a trad- group
on twitter and the idea was shared to defame and troll Muslim ladies. He had
developed the code on GitHub. The access of GitHub was with all the members of
the group. He had shared the app on his twitter account. The photos of the
Muslim women were uploaded by the group members," DCP KPS Malhotra,
Intelligence Fusion and Strategic Operations (IFSO), Delhi Police Special Cell,
said.
‘Sulli Deals’ and the recently created ‘Bulli Bai’
applications allegedly uploaded photos of Muslim women without their consent
and inappropriate remarks were passed against them. Both the apps used the
hosting platform ‘GitHub’ to auction the stolen photos.
Police identified and detained Thakur on the basis of
the inputs they received during the questioning of ‘Bulli Bai’ app creator
Niraj Bishnoi. Other than Bishnoi, three other accused have also been arrested
in the Bulli Bai app case.
Twenty-one-year-old engineering student and ‘Bulli
Bai’ app creator Bishnoi, who was arrested by the Delhi Police from Assam, has
owned up to creating the platform for Muslim women and putting them for fake
auction, but has shown no regret for his actions.
He is highly radicalised, police said. “He speaks
fluent English and accepts his crime. He said he has no remorse," the
police said.
During interrogation, he disclosed that he is the
person who created the Bullibai app on Github. He had also created the Twitter
handle @bullibai_ and other handles. He further disclosed that the Github
account and app were developed in November 2021 and finally updated the app in
December 2021.
Source: NEWS18.COM
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Sana Khan, Pakistani Actress Gets Emotional After
Umrah: 'Allah Gives Us So Much'
By Web Desk
January 08, 2022
Sana Khan is tearing up amid her visit to Saudi
Arabia.
The star, who went along with her husband to perform
Umrah, later sent out a general message to her fans, requesting them to be more
grateful.
"Today is my last Maghrib Namaz at the
Roza-e-Mubarak. When you think about it, Allah gives us so much, we can never
thank him enough." begins Sana. "Even after we don't thank him
enough, he keeps us showering with his blessings," says the former actor.
She added, "And we are very ungrateful. When
people give us things, we thank them so much. But when Allah gives us so much,
even after we do many things to disappoint him, we do not thank him as
much."
Sana left her career in acting to follow a religious
journey in 2022. She later married Anas Sayed to follow the path of Allah.
Source: The News
https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/923574-sana-khan-gets-emotional-after-umrah
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Trafficked Fifteen Bangladeshi Women And Six Kids Sent
Back From India
Subhasish Chaudhuri
09.01.22
The team of repatriated Bangladeshi nationals,
included 15 women and six boys, who were languishing at various safe homes in
Bengal. They were sent back home to Bangladesh through the Petrapole border in
North 24-Parganas, where first secretary (political) & head of chancery,
Bangladesh, Shamima Yeasmin Smrite was present to complete the repatriation
process.
A battery of senior officials of the ministry of
foreign affairs of Bangladesh, police and administrative officials of Jessore district
administration were present at the border to receive the repatriated
Bangladeshi nationals. On behalf of the India side, senior officials of the
state and central government as well as Border Security Force officials were
present.
A communication issued by the Bangladesh Deputy High
Commission in Calcutta stated that it came to know about many Bangladeshi women
and children, who are victims of trafficking and unlawful border-crossings,
were stranded at various safe homes in Bengal.
“Later with the support of the Ministry of Home
Affairs of Bangladesh, the nationality of those trafficked women and children
were verified and accordingly, the Deputy High Commission in Calcutta issued
travel permits and initiated necessary processes for repatriation,” the
communication stated.
The Bangladesh Deputy High Commission has also
welcomed the initiative taken by the Bengal government and the central
government agencies to curb the menace of trafficking.
BSF and Bengal home department sources claimed that a
few hundred Bangladeshi women are trafficked to India every year through the
porous borders. Most of these women, who are trapped by agents back home with
the promise of jobs in malls, salons, shops in Calcutta, Delhi, Mumbai, and
Bangalore, eventually end up joining flesh trade.
A senior officer of the BSF’s South Bengal Frontier in
Calcutta said: “Every month we intercept Bangladeshi women, most of whom are
victims of trafficking. In many cases, we as a goodwill gesture hand them over
to our Bangladeshi counterparts so that they can return home safely.”
Source: Telegraph India
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