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Aliza Noor

‘Becoming visible’: India’s first female Rohingya graduate

Tasmida Johar says she wants to become a human rights activist [Aliza Noor/Al Jazeera]

New Delhi, India – Tasmida Johar, India’s first woman graduate from the displaced Rohingya community, says she is going through a “conflicting feeling” these days.

“I feel happy about these headlines, ‘first this, first that’, but at the same time, it also makes me sad. I am happy because this is my achievement, of making it this far,” she told Al Jazeera as she sat in a public park in a predominantly Muslim neighbourhood of capital New Delhi.

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