The 'great' Mughals now have descendants battling poverty: Story of Bahadur Shah Zafar's great-granddaughter-in-law
Sultana Begum, the great-granddaughter-in-law of the last Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar, now lives in poverty in Kolkata ...
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A Mughal widow: Her in-laws ruled India, but she lives in a slum, earning less than a domestic worker
Married into the royal family that ruled India for three centuries, Sultana Begum lives in penury in a cramped two-room hut ...
CNN7y
Seeing the new India through the eyes of an invisible woman
Kolkata, India (CNN ... the World Bank's median poverty line. And 21%, or more than 250 million people, survive on less than $2 a day. Like other middle-class Indians, I grew up knowing ...
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Great granddaughter-in-law of India's last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar battling poverty in Kolkata slum
After the demise of Sultana's husband, Prince Mirza Bedar Bukht, in the 1980s, she has struggled to survive and support her ...
The Washington Post2mon
The inequality of heat
Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. Annie Gowen, Niko Kommenda, Anant Gupta and Atul Loke traversed Kolkata ...
The Print6d
Holberg Prize winner Spivak praises Mamata for efforts to reduce poverty
Literary theorist Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has praised West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for her efforts to reduce poverty and reaffirmed her commitment to India’s future. In a letter to ...