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NTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY SPECIAL....BORN TO BE REMEMBER AFTER 150 YEARS.....KAMINI ROY.....WATERCOLOUR....A4...2014....Kamini Roy (Bengali: ?????? ????) (12 October 1864 - 27 September 1933) was a leading Bengali poet, social worker and feminist in British India . She was the first woman honours graduate in British India. Born on 12 October 1864 in the village of Basanda, then in Bakergunj district of Bengal Presidency and now in Barisal District of Bangladesh, she joined Bethune School and passed the First Arts examination in 1883. A part of the earliest batch of girls to attend school, she was the first woman honours graduate in the country, having passed her bachelor of arts degree with Sanskrit honours from Bethune College of the University of Calcutta in 1886. Kadambini Ganguly was three years senior to her in the same institution. She continued her association with Bethune College as a teacher. Kamini Roy was a feminist in an age when even women's education was a taboo. She picked up the cue for feminism from a fellow student of Bethune School, Abala Bose. In an address delivered at a girls' school in Calcutta she declared that the aim of women's education was to contribute to their all-round development and fulfilment of their potential. he went out of her way to encourage other writers and poets. In 1923, she visited Barisal and encouraged Sufia Kamal, then a young girl, to continue writing. She was president of the Bengali Literary Conference in 1930 and vice-president of the Bangiya Sahitya Parishad in 1932-33. She was influenced by the poet Rabindranath Tagore and Sanskrit literature. Calcutta University honoured her with the Jagattarini Gold Medal. In her later life, she lived at Hazaribagh for some years. In that small town, she often had discussions on literary and other topics with such scholars as Mahesh Chandra Ghosh and Dhirendranath Choudhury. She died on 27 September 1933. Amongst her notable literary contributions were –Mahasweta, Pundorik