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Spectrum Chart - 344 : Great Indian Women 2
1. Lata Mangeshkar - Lata Mangeshkar is an
Indian playback singer. She is one of the best-known and most
respected playback singers in India. Mangeshkar's career started in
1942 and has spanned over seven decades. She has recorded songs for
over a thousand Hindi films and has sung songs in over thirty-six
regional Indian languages and foreign languages. She is the second
vocalist, after M. S. Subbulakshmi, to have ever been awarded the
Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour.
2. Asha Bhosle - Asha Bhosle is best known
as a playback singer in Hindi cinema, although she has a wider
repertoire. She has done playback singing for over a thousand
Bollywood movies. Renowned for her voice range and often credited for
her versatility, Bhosle's work includes film music, pop, ghazals,
bhajans, traditional Indian classical music, folk songs, qawwalis and
Rabindra Sangeets. In 2011, she was officially acknowledged by the
Guinness Book of World Records as the most recorded artist in music
history.
3. Kiran Bedi - Kiran Bedi is a retired
Indian Police Service officer, social activist, former tennis player
and politician who is the current Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry.
She is the first woman to join the Indian Police Service(IPS) in
1972. She remained in service for 35 years.
4. Kalpana Chawla - Kalpana Chawla was an
Indo-American astronaut and the first woman of Indian origin in
space. She first flew on Space Shuttle Columbia in 1997 as a mission
specialist and primary robotic arm operator. Kalpana Chawla died in
the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster which occurred on February 1,
2003, when the Columbia disintegrated over Texas during re-entry into
the Earth's atmosphere, with the death of all seven crew members.
5. Gayatri Devi - Maharani Gayatri Devi
was the third Maharani consort of Jaipur from 1940 to 1949 through
her marriage to Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II. Following her husband's
signature for the Jaipur State to become part of the Union of India,
she was later known as 'Maharani Gayatri Devi, Rajmata of Jaipur.
Following India's independence, she became an extremely successful
politician. Gayatri Devi was also celebrated for her classical beauty
and became something of a fashion icon in her adulthood.
6. Sonia Gandhi - Sonia Gandhi is an
Italian-born Indian politician, who has served as President of the
Indian National Congress party since 1998. She is the widow of former
Prime Minister of India, Rajiv Gandhi. In 2013, Sonia Gandhi was
overall ranked 21st and 3rd most powerful woman in Forbes powerful
list.
7. Arundhati Roy - Arundhati Roy is an
Indian author who is best known for her novel 'The God of Small
Things' (1997), which won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997.
This novel became the biggest-selling book by a non expatriate Indian
author. She is also a political activist involved in human rights and
environmental causes.
8. Jayalalitha - Jayaraman Jayalalithaa
commonly referred to as Amma by members in her party and by people of
Tamil Nadu. She is an Indian politician and the Chief Minister of
Tamil Nadu, in office since 2015. Previously she served as Chief
Minister from 1991 to 1996, in 2001, from 2002 to 2006 and from 2011
to 2014. She was an actress before her entry into politics and
appeared in 140 films which includes Tamil, Telugu and Kannada films.
Jayalalithaa became the first incumbent chief minister in India to be
disqualified from holding office due to conviction in a
disproportionate assets case, she was later acquitted.
9. Medha Patkar - Medha Patkar is an
Indian social activist and social reformer turned politician. She is
the founder member of Narmada Bachao Andolan and was National
Convener of National Alliance of People's Movements (NAPM), an
alliance of progressive people's organisations. She was a
representative to the World Commission on Dams, to research the
environmental, social and economic impacts of the development of
large dams globally.
10. Maneka Gandhi - Maneka Sanjay Gandhi is
the Indian Union Cabinet Minister for Women & Child Development
in the Government of PM Narendra Modi. She is also an animal rights
activist, environmentalist and widow of the Indian politician, Sanjay
Gandhi. She has been a minister in four governments and has authored
a number of books in the areas of etymology, law and animal welfare.
Maneka Gandhi is a member of the Nehru-Gandhi Family.
11. Sushmita Sen - Sushmita Sen is an
Indian film actress, model and the winner of the Miss Universe
pageant of 1994. She was the first Indian to win the crown. After
completing her reign, Sushmita Sen went on to pursue a career in
Bollywood.
12. Aishwarya Rai - Aishwarya Rai, is an
Indian actress, model and the winner of the Miss World pageant of
1994. Through her Bollywood acting career, she has established
herself as one of the most popular and high-profile celebrities in
India. Rai has received several awards, including two Filmfare Awards
and she was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India in
2009. She is often cited as the "most beautiful woman in the
world".
13. Mallika Sarabhai - Mallika Sarabhai is
an activist and Indian classical dancer from Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
Daughter of a classical dancer Mrinalini Sarabhai and renowned space
scientist Vikram Sarabhai, Mallika is an accomplished Kuchipudi and
Bharatanatyam dancer and performer who has specialized in using the
arts for social change and transformation. She is a noted
choreographer and dancer and has also acted in a few Hindi,
Malayalam, Gujarati and international films.
14. Bachendri Pal - Bachendri Pal is an
Indian mountaineer, who in 1984 became the first Indian woman to
reach the summit of Mount Everest. After summitting a number of
smaller peaks, she was selected to join India's first mixed-gender
team to attempt an expedition to Mount Everest in 1984. She was
awarded Arjuna award & Padma Shri award by the Government of
India.
15. Sania Mirza - Sania Mirza is an Indian
professional tennis player who is ranked No. 1 in the women's doubles
rankings. From 2003 until her retirement from singles in 2013, she
was ranked by the WTA as India's No. 1 player, both in singles and
doubles. She is the highest-ranked female player ever from India,
peaking at world No. 27 in singles in mid-2007. She has won 6 grand
slam titles in doubles, 3 each in mixed doubles & women's
doubles. She won various awards like Arjuna Award, Rajiv Gandhi Khel
Ratna, Padma Shri & Padma Bhushan.
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