Meherbanu Khanam

Meherbanu Khanam (Bengali: মেহেরবানু খানম; 1885 – 3 October 1925) was an artist and noblewoman in Bengal of kashmiri ancestry.

[3] Khanam send her paintings to The Moslem Bharat, a monthly magazine, where it was seen by Kazi Nazrul Islam, the future national poet of Bangladesh.

Kazi Nazrul Islam being inspired by the painting wrote a poem, Kheyaparer Tarani.

Khanam opened Kamrunnessa Girls' High School in Dhaka with her sisters Akhtarbanu and Paribanu.

[3] Khanam died on 3 October 1925 in Dhaka, East Bengal, British Raj.