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Shabana Basij-Rasikh - Educator
Shabana Basij-Rasikh helps girls and young women in Afghanistan get an education.

Why you should listen

Shabana Basij-Rasikh was born and raised in Kabul, Afghanistan. Under the Taliban, she dressed as a boy to escort her older sister to a secret school -- with dire consequences if they were caught. She attended a high school in America under the YES exchange program, and graduated from Middlebury College in Vermont. During college, she founded HELA, a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering Afghan women through education. She also raised funds through foundations and public talks across the US to build a high school for girls in her ancestral village, and to build wells on the outskirts of Kabul to give communities access to clean drinking water.

An enthusiast of systemic change and community impact, Basij-Rasikh was selected as one of Glamour's Top 10 College Women of 2010, and was awarded the Vermont Campus Compact 2011 Kunin Public Award for outstanding public service, effective leadership and community-building. Now, Shabana has joined 10×10 as a Global Ambassador, supporting a global action campaign that links nonprofits, corporations, philanthropists, policy leaders, global influencers and grassroots activists in a movement to support girls’ education. She is managing director of SOLA (School of Leadership, Afghanistan), a nonprofit that helps exceptional young Afghan women access education worldwide and jobs back home.

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TEDxWomen 2012

Shabana Basij-Rasikh: Dare to educate Afghan girls

शबाना बसीज-रसिख: अफगाण मुलींना शिकवण्याचं आव्हान: Shabana Basij-Rasikh: Dare to educate Afghan girls

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कल्पना करा अशा एका देशाची, जिथे मुलींना लपून छपून शाळेत जावं लागतं. आणि शिकताना पकडलं गेलं तर प्राणघातक परिणाम भोगावे लागतात. असा होता तालिबानच्या अंमलाखालचा अफगाणिस्तान. या भयाचा अंश आजही शिल्लक आहे. बावीस वर्षांची शबाना बसीज-रसिख अफगाणिस्तानात मुलींसाठी शाळा चालवते. ती एका कुटुंबाच्या, मुलींवर विश्वास टाकण्याच्या निर्णयाचं कौतुक करते. आणि धमक्यांना तोंड देणाऱ्या तिथल्या एका शूर पित्याची कहाणी सांगते.
- Educator
Shabana Basij-Rasikh helps girls and young women in Afghanistan get an education. Full bio

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मला आठवतंय, मी अकरा वर्षांची असताना
00:16
When I was 11,
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I remember waking up one morning to the sound of joy in my house.
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एके दिवशी सकाळी मला
एका खुशखबरीने जाग आली होती.
00:22
My father was listening to BBC News
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माझे वडील त्यांच्या छोट्या करड्या रेडिओवर
00:25
on his small, gray radio.
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बीबीसीच्या बातम्या ऐकत होते.
00:29
There was a big smile on his face which was unusual then,
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त्यांच्या चेहऱ्यावर मोठ्ठं हास्य होतं.
हे एक नवलच होतं.
00:32
because the news mostly depressed him.
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कारण बातम्या ऐकून ते नेहमी उदास होत असत.
00:36
"The Taliban are gone!" my father shouted.
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"तालिबान निघून गेले" ते ओरडले.
00:41
I didn't know what it meant,
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मला याचा अर्थ समजला नाही.
00:43
but I could see that my father was very, very happy.
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पण माझे वडील खूप खूष दिसत होते.
00:49
"You can go to a real school now," he said.
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"आता तुला खऱ्या शाळेत जाता येईल."
ते म्हणाले.
00:57
A morning that I will never forget.
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ती सकाळ मी कधीच विसरणार नाही.
01:02
A real school.
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खरी शाळा.
01:07
You see, I was six when the Taliban took over Afghanistan
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मी सहा वर्षांची होते तेव्हा
तालिबानने अफगाणिस्तानचा ताबा घेतला
01:10
and made it illegal for girls to go to school.
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आणि मुलींचं शिक्षण बेकायदेशीर ठरवलं.
01:14
So for the next five years, I dressed as a boy
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पुढची पाच वर्षं मी
मुलांसारखे कपडे घालीत असे.
01:17
to escort my older sister, who was no longer allowed
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माझ्या मोठ्या बहिणीला
एकटीने हिंडायला बंदी होती.
01:20
to be outside alone, to a secret school.
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म्हणून, तिच्यासोबत
एका छुप्या शाळेत जाण्यासाठी.
01:25
It was the only way we both could be educated.
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आम्हा दोघींना शिकण्याचा तो एकच मार्ग होता.
01:30
Each day, we took a different route
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दर दिवशी आम्ही वेगळ्या रस्त्याने जायचो.
01:33
so that no one would suspect where we were going.
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कुणाला संशय येऊ नये म्हणून.
01:37
We would cover our books in grocery bags
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आम्ही आमची पुस्तकं पिशवीत लपवून
01:39
so it would seem we were just out shopping.
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सहज बाजारात गेल्यासारख्या जायचो.
01:45
The school was in a house,
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ही शाळा एका घरात होती.
01:48
more than 100 of us packed in one small living room.
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आम्ही शंभरावर मुलं
एका छोट्या खोलीत जमायचो.
01:53
It was cozy in winter but extremely hot in summer.
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हिवाळ्यात ते उबदार वाटे.
पण उन्हाळ्यात अतिशय उकडायचं.
01:59
We all knew we were risking our lives --
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आम्ही जाणूनबुजून जीव धोक्यात घालीत होतो.
02:02
the teacher, the students and our parents.
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शिक्षक, विद्यार्थी आणि आमचे पालक, सर्वच.
02:06
From time to time, the school would suddenly be canceled
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अनेकदा शाळा अचानक आठवडाभर बंद ठेवली जाई.
02:08
for a week because Taliban were suspicious.
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तालिबानला संशय आला म्हणून.
02:12
We always wondered what they knew about us.
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आम्हाला नेहमी वाटे,
त्यांना आपल्याबद्दल काय माहित असेल?
02:15
Were we being followed?
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आपला पाठलाग होत असेल का?
02:18
Do they know where we live?
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आपण कुठे राहतो ते त्यांना ठाऊक असेल का?
02:22
We were scared,
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आम्हाला भीती वाटे.
02:24
but still, school was where we wanted to be.
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पण तरीही आम्हाला शाळेत जायचं होतं.
02:31
I was very lucky to grow up in a family
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माझं भाग्य मोठं, म्हणून
मी अशा एका कुटुंबात लहानाची मोठी झाले
02:35
where education was prized and daughters were treasured.
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की जिथे शिक्षणाला मान होता
आणि मुली ही मौल्यवान ठेव होती.
02:41
My grandfather was an extraordinary man for his time.
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माझे आजोबा त्यांच्या काळातले
एक असामान्य पुरुष होते.
02:46
A total maverick from a remote province of Afghanistan,
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अफगाणिस्तानाच्या एका दुर्गम भागातल्या
या सर्वस्वी बेलगाम माणसाने,
02:50
he insisted that his daughter, my mom,
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आग्रह धरला, त्यांच्या मुलीला,
म्हणजे माझ्या आईला, शाळेत घालण्याचा.
02:53
go to school, and for that he was disowned by his father.
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आणि त्यासाठी त्यांच्या वडिलांनी
त्यांच्याशी संबंध तोडले होते.
03:00
But my educated mother became a teacher.
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पण माझी आई शिकली, ती शिक्षिका झाली.
03:03
There she is.
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ही पहा.
03:06
She retired two years ago, only to turn our house
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दोन वर्षांपूर्वी ती निवृत्त झाली, ती केवळ
03:09
into a school for girls and women in our neighborhood.
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आमच्या घराचं रूपांतर, आजूबाजूच्या
मुली आणि स्त्रियांच्या शाळेत करण्यासाठीच.
03:14
And my father -- that's him --
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आणि माझे वडील - हे पहा -
03:19
he was the first ever in his family to receive an education.
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त्यांच्या घराण्यातले शिकणारे ते पहिलेच.
03:26
There was no question that his children
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तेव्हा त्यांची मुलं
आणि मुलीसुद्धा शिकणार
03:28
would receive an education, including his daughters,
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यात शंकाच नव्हती.
03:33
despite the Taliban, despite the risks.
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तालिबानसारखे धोके असूनही.
03:37
To him, there was greater risk in not educating his children.
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त्यांच्या मते, आपल्या मुलांना
शिक्षण न देणं हा जास्त मोठा धोका होता.
03:46
During Taliban years, I remember
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मला आठवतंय, तालिबानच्या काळात काही वेळा
03:49
there were times I would get so frustrated by our life
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आपल्या आयुष्याकडे पाहून मी खूप हताश होई.
03:54
and always being scared and not seeing a future.
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तसंच सततची भीती,
आणि समोर भविष्य दिसत नसल्यामुळेही.
03:58
I would want to quit,
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मला (शिक्षण) सोडून द्यावंसं वाटे.
04:01
but my father,
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पण माझे वडील,
04:04
he would say,
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ते म्हणत,
04:06
"Listen, my daughter,
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"ऐक, माझ्या मुली,
04:09
you can lose everything you own in your life.
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आयुष्यात आपल्या मालकीचं जे काही असतं,
ते सगळं गमावलं जाऊ शकतं.
04:12
Your money can be stolen. You can be forced to leave your home during a war.
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आपले पैसे चोरले जाऊ शकतात.
लढाईत आपल्याला आपल्या घरातून
हाकललं जाऊ शकतं.
04:16
But the one thing that will always remain with you
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पण कायम आपल्यासोबत राहणारी
एकमेव गोष्ट म्हणजे
04:19
is what is here,
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ही इथे आहे ती.
04:22
and if we have to sell our blood to pay your school fees,
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आणि आम्हाला जर
तुझ्या शाळेची फी भरण्याकरता
आमचं रक्त विकावं लागणार असेल,
04:27
we will.
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तर आम्ही ते विकू.
04:30
So do you still not want to continue?"
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तर, अजूनही तुला (शिक्षण)
सुरू ठेवावसं वाटत नाही काय?”
04:35
Today I am 22.
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आज मी बावीस वर्षांची आहे.
04:39
I was raised in a country that has been destroyed
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मी लहानाची मोठी झाले, ती
04:41
by decades of war.
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दशकभर चाललेल्या युद्धात
नाश पावलेल्या एका देशात.
04:44
Fewer than six percent of women my age have made it beyond high school,
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माझ्या वयाच्या
सहा टक्क्याहून कमी स्त्रियांनी
माध्यमिक शाळा पार केली आहे.
04:50
and had my family not been so committed to my education,
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माझ्या कुटुंबाने जर
माझ्या शिक्षणाचा निर्धार केला नसता,
04:52
I would be one of them.
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तर मीही
त्या (स्त्रियां)तलीच एक ठरले असते.
04:55
Instead, I stand here a proud graduate of Middlebury College.
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त्याऐवजी, आज मी इथे
मिडलबरी कॉलेजची पदवीधर म्हणून
अभिमानाने उभी आहे.
05:00
(Applause)
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(टाळ्या)
05:10
When I returned to Afghanistan, my grandfather,
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मी जेव्हा अफगाणिस्तानात परतले, तेव्हा
05:13
the one exiled from his home for daring to educate his daughters,
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मुलींना शिकवल्याबद्दल
घरातून हद्दपार झालेल्या
माझ्या आजोबांनी
05:18
was among the first to congratulate me.
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माझं सर्वप्रथम अभिनंदन केलं.
05:21
He not only brags about my college degree,
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ते बढाई मारतात, ती केवळ
माझ्या पदवीची नव्हे,
05:24
but also that I was the first woman,
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तर (पदवी घेणारी) मी
पहिलीच स्त्री म्हणूनही.
05:26
and that I am the first woman
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आणि मी पहिलीच स्त्री आहे,
05:28
to drive him through the streets of Kabul.
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त्यांना काबूलच्या रस्त्यांतून
स्वतः गाडी चालवून घेऊन जाणारी, म्हणून.
05:31
(Applause)
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(टाळ्या)
05:36
My family believes in me.
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माझ्या घरच्यांचा माझ्यावर विश्वास आहे.
05:39
I dream big, but my family dreams even bigger for me.
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मी मोठी स्वप्नं पाहते,
पण माझ्या घरच्यांची स्वप्नं त्याहूनही मोठी आहेत.
05:44
That's why I am a global ambassador for 10x10,
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म्हणून मी १० x १० ची वैश्विक राजदूत झाले.
05:49
a global campaign to educate women.
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१० x १० ही स्त्रीशिक्षणाची
एक जागतिक मोहीम आहे.
05:51
That's why I cofounded SOLA,
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तशीच मी SOLA ची सहसंस्थापिका झाले.
05:54
the first and perhaps only boarding school
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SOLA ही अफ़गाणिस्तानातली
पहिलीच आणि कदाचित एकमेव
05:56
for girls in Afghanistan,
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मुलींची निवासी शाळा आहे.
05:58
a country where it's still risky for girls to go to school.
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अशा एका देशातली, जिथे अजूनही
मुलींनी शाळेत जाणं धोक्याचं आहे.
06:04
The exciting thing is that I see students at my school
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कौतुकाची गोष्ट अशी, की माझ्या शाळेतल्या
महत्त्वाकांक्षी विद्यार्थिनी
06:07
with ambition grabbing at opportunity.
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मला सुसंधी पटकावताना दिसताहेत.
06:13
And I see their parents and their fathers
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आणि त्यांचे पालक आणि जन्मदाते,
06:16
who, like my own, advocate for them,
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माझ्या घरच्यांप्रमाणेच,
त्यांची पाठराखण करताना दिसताहेत,
06:21
despite and even in the face of daunting opposition.
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भयानक विरोध पत्करून आणि त्याला तोंड देऊन.
06:30
Like Ahmed. That's not his real name,
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अहमद प्रमाणे.
हे काही त्याचं खरं नाव नव्हे.
06:32
and I cannot show you his face,
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आणि मी तुम्हाला त्याचा चेहरा
दाखवू शकत नाही.
06:35
but Ahmed is the father of one of my students.
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पण अहमद माझ्या एका विद्यार्थिनीचा पिता.
06:38
Less than a month ago, he and his daughter
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महिन्याभरापूर्वी, तो आणि त्याची मुलगी
06:42
were on their way from SOLA to their village,
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SOLA हून आपल्या गावी जायला निघाले होते.
06:46
and they literally missed being killed
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आणि ते रस्त्यावरच्या बॉम्बस्फोटात
अक्षरशः मरता मरता वाचले.
06:52
by a roadside bomb by minutes.
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केवळ काही मिनिटांच्या फरकाने.
06:57
As he arrived home, the phone rang,
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तो घरी पोहोचताच फोन वाजला.
07:00
a voice warning him
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त्याला धमकावण्यात आलं.
07:03
that if he sent his daughter back to school,
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पुन्हा जर मुलीला शाळेत पाठवलंस,
07:06
they would try again.
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तर आम्ही पुन्हा प्रयत्न करू म्हणून.
07:09
"Kill me now, if you wish," he said,
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"हवं तर आत्ताच मारा मला," तो म्हणाला,
07:13
"but I will not ruin my daughter's future
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"पण तुमच्या जुन्या आणि
मागासलेल्या कल्पनांपायी
07:17
because of your old and backward ideas."
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मी माझ्या मुलीचं भविष्य नष्ट करणार नाही."
07:22
What I've come to realize about Afghanistan,
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मला जी गोष्ट अफगाणिस्तानबद्दल जाणवली आहे,
07:24
and this is something that is often dismissed in the West,
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आणि जी पाश्चात्यांकडून नेहमी डावलली जाते
ती अशी, की
07:28
that behind most of us who succeed
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आमच्यापैकी बहुतेक यशस्वी मुलींच्या पाठीशी
एक पिता असतो,
07:31
is a father who recognizes the value in his daughter
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जो त्याच्या मुलीची योग्यता जाणतो
07:38
and who sees that her success is his success.
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आणि तिचं यश हेच आपलं यश मानतो.
07:43
It's not to say that our mothers aren't key in our success.
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(मला) असं म्हणायचं नाही, की
आमच्या माता आमच्या यशाच्या
शिल्पकार नसतात.
07:47
In fact, they're often the initial and convincing negotiators
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खरं तर, बरेचदा त्याच पुढाकार घेऊन
07:51
of a bright future for their daughters,
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मुलींना शिकवण्याचा आग्रह धरतात.
07:55
but in the context of a society like in Afghanistan,
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पण अफगाणिस्तानासारख्या
समाजाच्या संदर्भात,
07:58
we must have the support of men.
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आम्हाला पुरुषांचा पाठिंबा आवश्यक असतो.
08:02
Under the Taliban, girls who went to school
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तालिबानच्या राजवटीत,
शाळेत जाणाऱ्या मुलींची संख्या
08:05
numbered in the hundreds --
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शेकड्यात होती.
08:07
remember, it was illegal.
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आठवतं का, ते बेकायदेशीर होतं.
08:09
But today, more than three million girls are in school in Afghanistan.
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पण आज, अफगाणिस्तानातल्या
तीस लाखावर मुली शाळेत शिकताहेत.
08:15
(Applause)
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(टाळ्या)
08:22
Afghanistan looks so different from here in America.
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अमेरिकेतून अफगाणिस्तान खूप वेगळा दिसतो.
08:28
I find that Americans see the fragility in changes.
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मला वाटतं, अमेरिकेतून पाहताना
हे बदल क्षीण दिसतात.
08:33
I fear that these changes will not last
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अमेरिकन फौजा परतल्यानंतर
हे बदल फार टिकणार नाहीत,
08:36
much beyond the U.S. troops' withdrawal.
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अशी भीती वाटते.
08:41
But when I am back in Afghanistan,
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पण मी जेव्हा अफगाणिस्तानात परतते,
08:44
when I see the students in my school
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माझ्या शाळेतल्या विद्यार्थिनी पाहते,
08:49
and their parents who advocate for them,
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त्यांच्या पाठीशी उभे असणारे
त्यांचे पालक पाहते,
08:52
who encourage them, I see a promising future
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तेव्हा मला उज्ज्वल भविष्य दिसतं,
08:56
and lasting change.
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आणि कायम टिकणारे बदल दिसतात.
09:00
To me, Afghanistan is a country of hope and boundless possibilities,
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माझ्यासाठी, अफगाणिस्तान देश आहे
आशेचा आणि अमर्याद शक्यतांचा,
09:08
and every single day
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आणि दरदिवशी
09:11
the girls of SOLA remind me of that.
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SOLAच्या मुली मला याची आठवण करून देतात.
09:15
Like me, they are dreaming big.
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माझ्यासारख्याच, त्याही मोठी स्वप्नं पाहताहेत.
09:18
Thank you.
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धन्यवाद.
09:20
(Applause)
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(टाळ्या)
Translated by Smita Kantak
Reviewed by Abhishek Suryawanshi

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Shabana Basij-Rasikh - Educator
Shabana Basij-Rasikh helps girls and young women in Afghanistan get an education.

Why you should listen

Shabana Basij-Rasikh was born and raised in Kabul, Afghanistan. Under the Taliban, she dressed as a boy to escort her older sister to a secret school -- with dire consequences if they were caught. She attended a high school in America under the YES exchange program, and graduated from Middlebury College in Vermont. During college, she founded HELA, a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering Afghan women through education. She also raised funds through foundations and public talks across the US to build a high school for girls in her ancestral village, and to build wells on the outskirts of Kabul to give communities access to clean drinking water.

An enthusiast of systemic change and community impact, Basij-Rasikh was selected as one of Glamour's Top 10 College Women of 2010, and was awarded the Vermont Campus Compact 2011 Kunin Public Award for outstanding public service, effective leadership and community-building. Now, Shabana has joined 10×10 as a Global Ambassador, supporting a global action campaign that links nonprofits, corporations, philanthropists, policy leaders, global influencers and grassroots activists in a movement to support girls’ education. She is managing director of SOLA (School of Leadership, Afghanistan), a nonprofit that helps exceptional young Afghan women access education worldwide and jobs back home.

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