Character:Dinarah - Revision history

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{{Infobox_Character
|Dinarah
|nee=Dinarah Munni
|born=2002
|pronouns=she/her
|skills=journalism, macroeconomy
|background=Bengali
|problem=she's resigned
|want=successful career
|need=hope, leadership
}}
[[File:Dinarah.jpg|thumb|300px|Dinarah]]

== Personality ==
* '''Insecure''': lacks work security; lacks financial security; inexperienced
* '''Dualist''': there is right, and there is wrong
* '''Ashamed''': of her humble origins; of her family and Muslim upbringing
* '''Anxious''': wants to prove herself; wants to establish herself financially and career-wise; wants to fix the world’s problems
* '''Omnivore''': has never thought about the impact she has in the lives of other creatures, and the environment
* '''Emotionally unsophisticated''': unaware of her values, feelings, and emotions; lacks psychological depth
* '''Plain''': normal/average; trusts the authority that comes from old money and established hierarchies; believes strongly that Democracy and Capitalism are the way to resolve the problems she sees need solutions

== Struggles ==
* overwhelmed (powerless)
* aimless: she has a plan, but doesn’t really have transcendental goals
* anxious and insecure
* overworked
* stuck in her personality: not growing spiritually or emotionally or psychologically
* no partner, a few friends but none is a great friend
* loves her family but she’s also ashamed of them

== Source of pain ==
* she wants to bring about (racial/ethnic) equality, because she was bullied in school, called “paki”, which she hated
* she feels unfairness very strongly (she was often punished for her siblings’ misdemeanours)
* she’s ashamed of her muslim background (she doesn’t like how her parents had to leave Bangladesh because of their mixed marriage)
* she was an excellent student with excellent grades, but a very average education overall (consumerist, work ethic, cisgender heterosexual, study to achieve, work to retire, be pretty to marry)

== Needs ==
* ACCEPTANCE: of self, of circumstances, of reality
* FAITH: in oneself, in others, in the world, in God
* TRUST: in oneself, in others, in the unknown
* SELFLESSNESS: including sacrifice, altruism, heroism, and overcoming greed
* RESPONSIBILITY: including duty, standing up for a cause, accepting one’s destiny
* REDEMPTION: including atonement, accepting blame, remorse, and salvation

== Wants ==
Successful career.

* ???

In pursuit of her goal (successful career), she's been actively:
* studying hard
* started working in a prestigious media company (The Guardian Media Group)

Roadblocks to achieving her goal:
* none so far

== Desires ==
Intimacy, love, hope in Humanity, a brighter future.

== Background ==
* journalist working for The Guardian Group (writing/researching/collaborating with The Observer)
* 27 years old (born in 2002)
* lived above her parents’ store from birth and until she went to university in 2020 (age 18), where she lived for four years in the [https://www.ntu.ac.uk/life-at-ntu/campuses/creativequarter University of Trent Nottingham] campus
* she represents the monetary market as a whole, historically, in every culture, from her ancient background to her current allegiance to the British Empire
* major in journalism, minor in macroeconomics
* she hasn’t come out as [https://www.theguardian.com/global/2015/may/17/losing-their-religion-british-ex-muslims-non-believers-hidden-crisis-faith atheist (apostate), but she’s generally agnostic], and expresses herself with cultural traits of both her mother’s and father’s families (often wearing a bindi)
* studies: [https://www.ntu.ac.uk/course/arts-and-humanities/ug/ba-hons-journalism BA (Hons) Journalism] (2020-2022); [https://www.ntu.ac.uk/study-and-courses/courses/find-your-course/arts-humanities/pg/2020-21/media-and-globalisation MA Media and Globalisation] (2023); [https://www.ntu.ac.uk/course/nottingham-business-school/pg/msc-economics-banking-and-finance Msc Economics Banking and Finance] (2024)

== Family ==
* from Bengali descent
* youngest of three sisters
* muslim mother, hindu father (converted to muslim to marry)
* her mother (Tahmima Hassan, homemaker, daughter of a homemaker and a bus driver, sister to an older brother) was low-income middle class, born in 1980 (age 49); was a bit of a rebel and not a strong believer; married to Dinarah’s father at 18, as an arranged marriage
* her father (Partha Munni, merchant, son of merchants, brother to two younger sisters) was middle class, born in 1976 (age 53); his family feared for their safety in Bangladesh and all converted to Islam<ref group="footnotes">https://www.sundayguardianlive.com/news/hindus-attack-bangladesh-pakistan-face-annihilation</ref> in 1997 (age 21), and married him into a muslim family
* her parents got married when she was 18 and he was 22, had two children in Bangladesh, and he worked at their parents’ store, called Munni Spices
* her father’s parents they helped them migrate to the UK before she was born (when her father was 25), with her mom and her two older sisters, helping them set an [https://www.google.com/maps/place/Lalshah+Grocers/@51.5330179,-0.0652432,3a,75y,300.02h,90t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sayFW1_8L_Lz4sM74IQZH6w!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo1.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DayFW1_8L_Lz4sM74IQZH6w%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D300.0213%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192!4m8!1m2!2m1!1sasian+store+near+Tower+Hamlets,+UK!3m4!1s0x0:0x4c502201f1b1f745!8m2!3d51.5330957!4d-0.0654352 Asian food store in in Tower Hamlets], also called Munni Spices

== Appearance ==
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== Research ==
Surnames
* [https://forebears.io/bangladesh/surnames Bangladesh surnames]
* Basar
* Rouf
* Salim
* Pal
* Monir
* Munni (homophone of money): this surname is great, but is typically Hindu in origin. A possibility is that her father converted to Islam to marry her mother ([https://www.refworld.org/pdfid/4b6fe1250.pdf so that their marriage was not considered an "irregular marriage"]), and the reason why Dinarah is only marginally religious (her mother is religious, her father is not)
* Yousuf

Bangladesh people
* [[w:British Bangladeshi|Bangladeshis in the UK]]
* Journalists
** [[w:Kia Abdullah|Kia Abdullah]]: family life ([https://kiaabdullah.com/blog/gone-girl/ gone-girl], [https://kiaabdullah.com/blog/me-and-my-addict-brother/ me and my addict brother]); [https://lithub.com/finding-freedom-in-writing-a-language-my-parents-cant-read/ parents]; [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/may/01/relationships.gender relationships]
** [http://www.hannayusuf.com/about/ Hanna Yusuf]

== Footnotes ==
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 == Background ==
-* journalist working for The Guardian Group (writing/researching/collaborating with The Observer)
+* journalist, doing an internship in [https://www.ft.com/content/fe383b92-6d98-11e9-9ff9-8c855179f1c4 Financial Times]
 * 27 years old (born in 2002)
 * lived above her parents’ store from birth and until she went to university in 2020 (age 18), where she lived for four years in the [https://www.ntu.ac.uk/life-at-ntu/campuses/creativequarter University of Trent Nottingham] campus
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 * she hasn’t come out as [https://www.theguardian.com/global/2015/may/17/losing-their-religion-british-ex-muslims-non-believers-hidden-crisis-faith atheist (apostate), but she’s generally agnostic], and expresses herself with cultural traits of both her mother’s and father’s families (often wearing a bindi)
 * studies: [https://www.ntu.ac.uk/course/arts-and-humanities/ug/ba-hons-journalism BA (Hons) Journalism] (2020-2022); [https://www.ntu.ac.uk/study-and-courses/courses/find-your-course/arts-humanities/pg/2020-21/media-and-globalisation MA Media and Globalisation] (2023); [https://www.ntu.ac.uk/course/nottingham-business-school/pg/msc-economics-banking-and-finance Msc Economics Banking and Finance] (2024)
 == Family ==

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 Successful career.
-* ???
+* wants to solidify her position at The Guardian; dreams of being deployed as a correspondent at a war-zone
 In pursuit of her goal (successful career), she's been actively:
-* studying hard
+* studied hard and achieved honours majoring in journalism and minoring in macroeconomics
-* started working in a prestigious media company (The Guardian Media Group)
+* managed to get a position at The Guardian Group of companies
 Roadblocks to achieving her goal:
-* none so far
+* she’s insecure, and indecisive, doesn’t dare taking risks, is afraid of making mistakes
 == Desires ==