She is the first Asian women and youngest in the world to create a swimming record in the waters of the Antarctic.

In which of the following years did Indian women's cricket team reach the ODI World Cup finals ?

While reading about India’s first lunar probe, Chandrayaan 1, in the Anandabazar Patrika she thought ‘How lucky those people are to have the opportunity to be part of this!’ then fast forward to 2015, she became one of the top ISRO scientists, part of a team that worked on India’s acclaimed Mars Orbiter Mission. Today, she is heading a team to make indigenous progress in optical sciences as a part of ‘Make in India’ initiative.

She is a business executive and former CEO of PepsiCo. She was also featured on the Fortune List in 2015 as the 2nd most powerful woman in the world. In 2018, she was named as one of the ‘Best CEOs in the World’. She serves as a board member of Amazon currently.

She is a young Indian Air Force officer, who became the first Indian woman fighter pilot to fly the ‘MiG-21 Bison’ solo which is known for its highest take-off and landing speed in the world at 340 kmph.

Touted as the “sports daughter of India”, she has played a pivotal role in putting Indian woman on the sports world map. She carries the privilege of becoming the first Indian woman to win an Olympic medal in 2000.

Popularly known as ‘polar woman of ISRO’, she is ISRO’s first woman scientist to spend more than a year in the icy landscape of Antarctica. In nov 2016 the 56-year-old spent 403 days at the continent operating and maintaining ISRO’s ground station.

She is the first Indian to break into the top 10 in the PSA Women’s rankings (Official Women's Squash World Ranking). She was awarded with Arjuna award for squash in 2012 and Padma shri in 2014. She is married to a Indian cricketer.