Ferdousi Priyabhashini: Sculptor and Freedom Fighter

Ferdousi Priyabhashini (1947–2018) was a self-taught Bangladeshi sculptor who made art from driftwood, roots and discarded natural material — and the first woman to publicly announce herself as a Birangona, breaking decades of silence about the women assaulted during the Liberation War. She received the Independence Award in 2010 and was gazetted a freedom fighter in 2016.