RE: [SAAPE Network] Fwd: My Najma Sadeque no longer with us
Priti Darooka
Dear friends,
Extremely sad news! this is a tremendous loss to human rights and especially to women’s rights not just in Pakistan but globally. Najma was a fearless activist who spoke her mind with such clarity and conviction.
I had the wonderful opportunity to work with Najma on couple of occasions and always admired her feminist spirit. She was a dear friend who I felt was always there in the struggle and in life. She always made me realise in her own way what it meant to be a feminist leader – Nurturing, supportive, strong, and a great sense of humour.
I am grateful to Najma for touching my life in such a meaningful way. My heartfelt condolences to her family. We will all miss her.
Warmly,
Priti
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From: sa...@googlegroups.com [mailto:sa...@googlegroups.com]
On Behalf Of Shobha Raghuram
Sent: 08 January 2015 09:54
To: sa...@googlegroups.com
Cc: deneb...@gmail.com
Subject: [SAAPE Network] Fwd: My Najma Sadeque no longer with us
Dear Members of SAAPE,
I received this letter from our Founding Member of SAAPE,Najma Sadeque's daughter Deneb that. Najma is no longer with us. I cannot believe that she is no longer with us. I met her last at the IIM,Bangalore and she gave a brilliant talk on the corporatisation of agriculture and what globalisation means for the landless peasant...Despite being in a premier Management school in India she did not compromise and that was Najma as I have known her through her writings and her public interventions. I want to thank Netra and Praman for promptly renewing her membership in SAAPE year before last. She wanted so much to remain a part of SAAPE. Farooq helped to connect again with her and I thank you for that Farooq.
I am enclosing the letter of her daughter to me and I hope that Netra,Arjun and Farooq and Karamat on behalf of SAAPE will write to her daughter. Please carry a memorial for her on the SAAPE website and let us reproduce her writings as part of the food campaign of SAAPE. Let us not forget that Najma was extremely committed to gender justice and was often very critical of the lack of sensitivity to the issues of women's rights even in civil society organisations.
I was so keen
that she attend the next General Assembly Meeting of SAAPE but it is not to be.
How happy she used to feel to come to Delhi and meet me at a bookshop and carry
home all the books that she could carry!
In sorrow at losing one more comrade, a dear friend and a very special campaigner for social justice, honest journalist and writer.
Shobha
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From: Deneb Sumbul <deneb...@gmail.com>
Date: 8 January 2015 at 08:33
Subject: My Najma Sadeque no longer with us
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Dear All,
With the greatest sorrow, this is to inform you that my mother, Najma Sadeque passed away last night around 12:30. She was suffering from kidney failure.
In how many ways can I describe my wonderful indomitable mother - she wore so many hats - an activist to the last, journalist for over 35 years, one of the founding members of WAF and someone who had so many interests and never short on wonderful ideas and new perspectives.
For me, the pain of losing her is just is beyond words. I share with you all one of my favorite pictures of her that I took of her at her office.
Please send your love and prayers to her.
Deneb Sumbul
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