A GREAT INDIAN WOMAN

PREPARED BY HARPALSINH GOHIL

COLLEGE SVMSM RAJKOT

 A lady who lived her dream An Indian-American

Astronaut Killed in Space Shuttle Columbia disaster

KALPANA CHAWLA

 India's most eminent personality of

the pre-independence era A political activist, poet, writer First Indian woman to become the president of the Indian National Congress. Also known as Bharatiya Kokila (The Nightingale of India) First woman to become the Governor of Uttar Pradesh.

SAROJINI NAIDU

 First Woman IPS officer Worked with the United Nations

as the Police Advisor to the Secretary General, in the Department of Peace Keeping Operations. Represented India at the United Nations, and in International forums on crime prevention, drug abuse, police and prison reforms and womens issues. She has been a National and an Asian Tennis champion.

KIRAN BEDI

 First woman Air Commodore in the Air

Force. She and her husband, Wing Commander S.N. Bandopadhyaya, were the first husband and wife team to be awarded the Vashist Seva Medal for their work during the 1971 Indo-Pak war First Indian woman officer to have conducted research in the Arctic region. First woman to be made a fellow of the Aerospace Medical Society of India.

PADMAVATI BANDOPADHYAYA

 Chairperson and CEO of

PepsiCo, the world's fourthlargest food and beverage company. Named the #1 Most Powerful Business Woman in the world in 2006 and 2007 by Fortune magazine. Named as one of the America's Best Leaders by U.S. News & World Report in 2008

INDIRA NOOYI

 Known as a 'Human Computer' Extraordinary talents in solving

complex mathematical problems without any mechanical aid. Became an expert in complex mental arithmetic at the age of five. On 18 June 1980, gave the product of two, thirteen digit figures after multiplying them within 28 seconds. Placed in the Guinness book of records as a result of her extraordinary talents. Nowadays, apart from solving mathematical problems, she is utilizing her amazing talent in the field of astrology.

SHAKUNTALA DEVI

Kiran Mazumdar Shaw

Entrepreneur who has tasted

success in a field traditionally not associated with women. Chairman & Managing Director of BioconLtd Referred to as India's Biotech Queen by The Economist and Fortune, and India's mother of invention by New York Times.

Suzanna Arundhati Roy

An Indian writer and activist

Won the Booker Prize(literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of either the Commonwealth of Nations or Ireland) in 1997 for her novel, The God of Small Things,
Won the Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize

Aruna Rangachar
Director of Interspice Biotech

Ltd., Chennai Winner of the "Outstanding Business woman Manager, 2003" award, conferred on her by MMA.

Dr Aditi Pant
First Indian woman to

participate in the cruise to the icy continent, Antarctica. Significant contributions to the Oceanography field Honoured by "Antarctica Award" of the Govt. of India for her outstanding contributions to the Indian Antarctic Programme.

Prof. Kasturi Datta

Ph.D degree in Biochemistry from Calcutta

University Served as pool officers at AIIMS, New Delhi. Performed as Dean at Jawaharlal Nehru University in 2001. Initiated research activities in Environmental Biology division Established a vibrant group working the area of cellular signaling. Provides leadership in development programs of enormous importance to India in education, Science and technology.

Chanda D.Kochar
Currently the Deputy Managing Director of ICICI

Bank, Indias second-largest Bank, Would succeed Chief Executive Officer (CEO) K.V. Kamath who will retire in April 2009. Holds a degree in cost and works accountancy from the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India and also holds a management degree from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai. Currently she is responsible for international as well as wholesale banking. An example in the corporate world of being a woman leading Indias largest private sector bank.

PREETHA REDDY
Managing Director, Apollo Hospitals Group
As a young girl she was devoted to dancing

and was a disciple of Rukmini Arundale at Kalakshetra. Preetha did not join family-owned Apollo Hospitals till 1989 some 10 years after having stayed home. From Rs 110 crore when she took over, she has steered the business close to Rs 1,000 crore last year.

SULAJJA FIRODIA MOTWANI

Managing Director, Kinetic Engineering
An MBA from Carnegie Mellon University,

USA She is a business leader, an achiever and above all - an entrepreneur par excellence. As Managing Director of Kinetic Engineering Ltd, Pune, India she is responsible for the groups overall business strategy and development with a keen eye on the 'potboiler' Indian two wheeler market.

DR. SWATI PIRAMAL

Director, Strategic Alliances and

Communications, Nicholas Piramal

Recipient of the Knight of the Order of

Merit Award for her contribution in the development of Indo -French relations in the field of medicine and trade. Nicholas Piramal India has become one of the leading life sciences and pharmaceutical companies in India under her leadership

Naina Lal Kidwai

CEO, HSBC Bank, India The first Indian woman to graduate from the

Harvard Business School Fortune magazine listed Kidwai among the World's Top 50 Corporate Women from 2000 to 2003 According to the Economic Times, she is the first woman to head the operations of a foreign bank in India. Currently the Group General Manager and Country Head of HSBC India. Has been awarded with Padma Shri, one of the highest civilian honours bestowed by the Government of India.

Dr. Aarthi Prabhakar

Tenth Director of NIST by

President William Clinton Served as a Congressional Fellow in the Office of Technology Assessment of the U.S. Congress from 1984 to 1986 Conducted a study for the House Science, Research and Technology Subcommittee on Microelectronics Research and Development

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