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Who Am I. KALPANA CHAWLA. A lady who lived her dreamAn Indian-American AstronautKilled in Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. . . . . SAROJINI NAIDU. India's most eminent personality of the pre-independence eraA political activist, poet, writerFirst Indian woman to become the president of the Indian National Congress. Also known as
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3. KALPANA CHAWLA A lady who lived her dream
An Indian-American Astronaut
Killed in Space Shuttle Columbia disaster
4. SAROJINI NAIDU 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.
5. KIRAN BEDI 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 women’s issues.
She has been a National and an Asian Tennis champion.
6. PADMAVATI BANDOPADHYAYA 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.
7. INDIRA NOOYI Chairperson and CEO of PepsiCo, the world's fourth-largest 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
8. SHAKUNTALA DEVI 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.
10. 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.
12. Aruna Rangachar Director of Interspice Biotech Ltd., Chennai
Winner of the "Outstanding Business woman Manager, 2003" award, conferred on her by MMA.
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. Chanda D.Kochar Currently the Deputy Managing Director of ICICI Bank, India’s 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 India’s largest private sector bank.
16. 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.
17. 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 group’s overall business strategy and development with a keen eye on the 'potboiler' Indian two wheeler market.
18. 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
19. 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.
20. 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
