club100 || The Best Woman For Me : Jahanara Imam

Imam of Jahanara Bangladeshi writer, author, educator, and leader of the 1971 anti-murderous broker's campaign (3 May 1929 – 26 June 1994). In Bangladesh, she is known as Shaheed Janani. The Days of Ekattar is her most famous book. Her eldest son, Shafi Imam Rumi, joined the country's freedom movement in 1971, and she was kidnapped by the Pakistani army and tortured to death after several successful guerrilla operations. Rumi's friends accepted Rumi's mother, Jahanara Imam, as the mother of all freedom warriors after the triumph. Rumi was given the title of Martyr Janani on the occasion of her martyrdom.

Jahanara Imam was born on 3 May 1929 in a conservative Bengali Muslim family in the village of Sundarpur, now part of Barana Police Station in Murshidabad, West Bengal. Syed Abdul Ali, Jahanara Imam's father, was a Deputy Magistrate. Mother Syeda Hamida Begum.

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Education

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Jahanara Imam passed secondary school in 1942. After graduating from Rangpur Carmichael College in 1944, she was admitted to Lady Brabourne College in Calcutta in 1945. She passed BA from Lady Brabourne College ( Calcutta University ) in 1947. Famous architect Shariful Alam Imam is her husband. After the partition, she moved with his family to what was then East Pakistan. She obtained his B.Ed degree from Dhaka University in 1970. In 1961, while studying for her MA, she spent six months in the United States with a Fulbright Scholarship. Certificate in Education from the USA. She obtained her degree in 1984. Returning from the United States, she passed his MA in Bengali in 1985 from Dhaka University.

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Career

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As a teacher in Mymensingh, he spent the first few years of his professional life. From 1948 to 1949, she worked as an assistant teacher in a girls' boarding school in New York City. After that, he relocated to Dhaka. Previously, she served as the headteacher of Dhaka's Siddheswari Girls' High School from 1952 to 1960, the headmaster of Bulbul Academy Kindergarten School from 1962 to 1977, and a lecturer at the Dhaka Teachers Training College from 1977 to 1992. (198-198). Additionally, he worked as a part-time teacher at the Institute of Modern Languages at Dhaka University for a period of time.

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Political life

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In the war of liberation of 1971, freedom fighter Shafi Imam Rumi, son of Jahanara Imam was martyred. Besides, her husband Sharif Imam, an ally of the liberation war, also died during the war. He was diagnosed with mouth cancer in the early 1980s, in 1982. Once a year, he had to travel to the United States for therapy.

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When Jamaat-e- Islami declared Ghulam Azam as the Ameer of their party on December 29, 1991, mass protests started in Bangladesh. On the 19th of January 1992, a 101-member committee led by Jahanara Imam was constituted as part of the protest. He became its convener. Apart from this, the anti-liberation anti-consciousness resistance platform, 14 student organizations, major political alliances, workers-peasants-women, and cultural alliances comprising 70 organizations formed the 'National Coordinating Committee for Implementing the Consciousness of Liberation War and Eliminating the Deadly Brokers of 1971'.

Jahanara Imam was unanimously elected as its convener. The committee held the historic trial of Golam Azam, the murderer of 1971, at Suhrawardy Udyan on March 26, 1992, through the People's Court. Ten specific charges were raised against Golam Azam in the people's court. Jahanara, chairman of the 12-judge people's court, declared 10 crimes of Imam Ghulam Azam punishable by death.

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Awards and honors

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Award	Year
Bangladesh Lekhika Sangha Sahitya Award	1988
Kamar Mushtari Sahitya Award	1988
Bangla Academy Literary Award	1991
The best freedom fighter award	Bangla 1401
Women Book Promotion	1994
Independence Medal	1997
Rokeya Padak	1997
Ananya Sahitya Award	2001
Universal Artists Group Award	2001
University Artists Group Award	2001

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Jahanara Imam died of cancer at the age of 85 on June 26, 1994, at 7 pm Bangladesh time at Sainai Hospital in Detroit, Michigan. He was taken to the United States on April 2 for medical treatment. His body was brought to Bangladesh on July 4.

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