Rising Beyond The Ceiling

02/09/2026

Congratulations to our RBTC Uttar Pradesh Honoree GHAZALA WAHAB on winning the 2026 Valley of Words Book Award (VBA) in the English Non-Fiction category for her book The Hindi Heartland: A Study. The book, published by Aleph Book Company, offers a deep, researched study of the region's landscape, politics, and social dynamics.

Ghazala Wahab is an award-winning Indian journalist, writer, and a native of the Hindi heartland region. She is also the executive editor of FORCE magazine and the author of other highly acclaimed books, including Born a Muslim: Some Truths About Islam in India. Wahab

Check out The Hindi Heartland at https://www.amazon.com/Hindi-Heartland-Ghazala-Wahab/dp/B0FGY18ZFP

Our Rising Beyond The Ceiling compendium of over 100 Muslim women authors is at the link below. We welcome your review and suggestions. https://www.inspiringindianmuslimwomen.org/authors-writing-in-english

04/08/2026

We continue to curate amazing inspirational profiles of Muslim women of India achieving new milestones in new areas!

SUFIYA SUFI : Breaking World Records !Sprint Athlete from Ajmer,

The Guinness Book of World Records, confirmed her as the fastest runner to run across Qatar (north to south), covering a distance of 200 kilometers in 30 hours and 31 minutes. Guinness World Record for Most Marathons Run in a Calendar Year by a Woman, in 2018. The Manali-Leh stretch on foot. She completed the 485 km distance in 6 days, 12 hours, and 6 minutes, making her the fastest female to cover the distance.

The Guinness record for setting the fastest time by a female to complete the Golden Quadrilateral, a network of highways connecting Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, and Chennai, in 2021. Sufiya had then covered the 6002-km distance in 110 days, 23 hours, and 24 minutes.The Guinness record for being the fastest woman to traverse from Kashmir to Kanyakumari in 2019, running the length in 87 days, 2 hours, and 17 minutes. And now in 2026 she has broken her own record ! Bravo 🙌

From a three-kilometre run to six Guinness World Records, Sufiya Sufi covered 4,167 km from Kanyakumari to Kashmir in 68 days before continuing towards Karakoram.

08/06/2026

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23/04/2026

23rd April is World Book Day : celebration of the power of books. Books are a window onto another world – with each new page, they introduce us to new people, new cultures and new ideas. See RBTC one hundred books at link in comments

24/03/2026

For Downtown Abbey fans check out this book by our RBTC USA Honoree TABASSUM RUHI KHAN at the link. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/downton-abbey-9798216201359/

This book examines Downton Abbey's dramatic narrative and visual aesthetics to interrogate centrality of power and privilege in narrative structuring and to understand audiences' uncritical acceptance of a hierarchical universe, even as social and economic inequalities continue to run rampant. Combining textual analysis with audience research and focusing primarily on audiences in the United States and India – both former British colonies – Ruhi poses critical questions surrounding the meaning of nostalgic performance, the growing prevalence of injustice—inspired critique, and the underlying motives for circulating an idealized, though irrecoverable, British imperial past. Examining the contemporary relevance of these picturesque representations, which reduce history to a spectacle, Ruhi juxtaposes the present—day media environment with that of legacy media and highlights the construction of culture and ideology at a juncture of major changes in production, distribution, and consumption of popular culture ushered by new communication technologies. …

Check out our Rising Beyond The Ceiling online library for amazing books in English by over 100 Muslim women authors of India here : https://www.inspiringindianmuslimwomen.org/authors-writing-in-english

20/03/2026

Eid Mubarak from all of us at Rising Beyond The Ceiling !

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02/03/2026

Our RBTC Karnataka Coordinator has launched a channel “Aspire to Inspire” to continue to share inspiring stories of women achievers! Check out this new interview as part of our Women’s Day 2026 series!

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