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  • 3/7/2020
On International Women’s Day 2020, The Wire’s Yasmeen Rashidi remembers the life and struggles of Sara Shagufta, a feminist poetess who wrote in Urdu and Punjabi languages and was driven to death by suicide after a lifelong struggle against patriarchal prejudices.

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