Toru Dutt
Bengali poet and translator
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Lakshmi Bai
Ruler and military leader of Jhansi who fought British imperialism
Herabai Tata
Indian women’s rights activist and suffragist
Mithan Jamshed Lam
Indian lawyer, women’s rights activist and the first Indian woman barrister, lawyer at the Bombay High Court and Sheriff of Mumbai
Savita Halappanavar
Halappanavar’s preventable death was the catalyst for change in Irish abortion laws
Pandita Saraswati Ramabai
Advocate for the education of women and the abandonment of the custom of child marriages
Bhama Srinivasan
Bhama Srinivasan is an Indian-born mathematician who has worked in England and America and is known for her work in the representation theory of finite groups.
Indra Nooyi
Indra Nooyi, a business leader and strategic thinker, is widely considered to be one of the top CEOs in the world for her leadership of the global behemoth PepsiCo for 12 years. She was the first woman of color and first immigrant to head a Fortune 50 company.
Padma Menon
In 1976 Menon moved to Madras to work with Vempati Chinna Satyam in the Kuchipudi style and became a member of his dance company, which was attached to the Kuchipudi Art Academy in Madras. Menon performed extensively with this company in India and also gave solo performances across the country.
Bano Qudsia
Pakistani novelist, playwright and spiritualist Bano Qudsia wrote novels, dramas plays and short stories in Urdu and wrote for television and stage inUrdu and Punjabi languages. She is best recognized for her novel Raja Gidh and her critically acclaimed play Aadhi Baat.