Dr Janaki Ammal, pioneering botanist, cytogeneticist and passionate plant scientist who sweetened our sugarcane varieties served as the head of the Botanical Survey of India in the 1950s. Born in 1897 in Thalasseri, Kerala, India, she was the 10th child …
An Indian American Woman in Space: Kalpana Chawla Kalpana Chawla was the first Indian woman to go into space. She was born in Karnal Haryana, India , on 17 March 1962 Chawla completed her earlier schooling at Tagore Baal Niketan …