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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Saeeda Bano''' was an India news broadcaster who joined [[All India Radio]] in 1947 and subsequently became the first professional female news broadcaster in India, reading the news in [[Urdu]]. She also published a memoir titled ''Dagar Se Hat Kar'' (''Off the Beaten Track'') in 1994.<br />
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== Life ==<br />
Bano spent her early childhood in [[Lucknow]], Uttar Pradesh and [[Bhopal]], Madhya Pradesh. At 17 she married Abbas Raza, a judge, but separated from him in 1947, moving with her chlidren to Delhi to work as a news broadcaster. She was a friend of the singer and actress [[Begum Akhtar]], and helped introduce her to society in Lucknow, including introducing Akhtar to her future husband, Ishtiaq Abbasi.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Najib|first=Rihan|title=To end the news, the headlines again: The life and times of Saeeda Bano|url=https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/blink/read/to-end-the-news-the-headlines-again-the-life-and-times-of-saeeda-bano/article33160779.ece|access-date=2021-03-04|website=@businessline|language=en}}</ref> After her separation from her husband, Bano entered into a long-term relationship with lawyer [[Nuruddin Ahmed]], who later served as the Mayor of India's capital, [[Delhi]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=Dasgupta|first=Sucheta|date=2020-12-06|title='Even forthright women can be submissive'|url=https://www.asianage.com/books/061220/even-forthright-women-can-be-submissive.html|access-date=2021-03-04|website=The Asian Age}}</ref> <br />
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== Career ==<br />
Following her separation from her husband, Bano applied for, and was accepted, to a job at the All India Radio, to read the news in [[Urdu]]. Prior to that, she had worked in a private radio station set up in Lucknow, which broadcast shows for women and children.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Haziq|first=Saman|title=WKND Conversations: India's first female radio newsreader 'lived life on her own terms'|url=https://www.khaleejtimes.com/wknd/interviews/wknd-conversations-indias-first-female-radio-newsreader-lived-life-on-her-own-terms|access-date=2021-03-04|website=Khaleej Times|language=en}}</ref> She had written directly to diplomat and politician [[Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit|Vijay Lakshmi Pandit]], who supported her application. Bano was the first woman to read the news as a public broadcaster in India.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|last=Bano|first=Saeeda|date=2020-10-14|title=Saeeda Bano, first woman Urdu news reader who got marriage offers and 'go to Pakistan' letters|url=https://theprint.in/pageturner/excerpt/saeeda-bano-first-woman-urdu-news-reader-who-got-marriage-offers-and-go-to-pakistan-letters/516438/|access-date=2021-03-04|website=ThePrint|language=en-US}}</ref> Bano has also described facing criticism for living alone as a single woman, and working professionally as a news broadcaster, during this period.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Bano|first=Saeeda|date=2020-10-14|title=Saeeda Bano, first woman Urdu news reader who got marriage offers and 'go to Pakistan' letters|url=https://theprint.in/pageturner/excerpt/saeeda-bano-first-woman-urdu-news-reader-who-got-marriage-offers-and-go-to-pakistan-letters/516438/|access-date=2021-03-04|website=ThePrint|language=en-US}}</ref> She began her work on 13 August 1947, two days before India's [[Independence Day (India)|Independence day]], marking the end of British colonial rule in India. In her memoir, Bano describes receiving letters from Indian audiences telling her to 'Go to Pakistan' following the [[Partition of India]] and notes that while the amount of such letters reduced, she continued to receive them over the course of her career.<ref name=":1" /><br />
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In 1994, Bano published a memoir in Urdu titled, ''Dagar Se Hat Kar,'' which was later translated to English as ''Off the Beaten Track'' by her grand-daughter Shahana Raza.<ref name=":0" /> Bano has stated that she wrote the memoir at the encouragement of her friend, author and musician [[Sheila Dhar]].<ref name=":1" /> The book won an award from the Urdu Academy in Delhi.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=LAMBERT-HURLEY|first=SIOBHAN|date=2014|title=To Write of the Conjugal Act: Intimacy and Sexuality in Muslim Women's Autobiographical Writing in South Asia|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24616488|journal=Journal of the History of Sexuality|volume=23|issue=2|pages=155–181|doi=10.7560/JHS23201|jstor=24616488|s2cid=142867197|issn=1043-4070}}</ref><br />
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