Symbol's Of The Great India

Dear Friends ,

I Just want to list out Important persons in India , those who are really motivated me or got Impression.  There is no priority i follow. I just mention few members. lot & lot of others also there in India like this.

Thanks & Regards

Sivaprakash.

1) Kalpana Chawla (Hindi: कल्‍पना चावला; Punjabi: ਕਲਪਨਾ ਚਾਵਲਾ) (March 17, 1961 – February 1, 2003), was an Indian-American scientist and a NASAastronaut. She was one of seven crewmembers killed in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.

Status	Deceased
Born	July 1, 1961 Karnal, Haryana, India
Died	February 1, 2003 (aged 41) Over Texas
Previous occupation	Research Scientist
Time in space	31d 14h 54m
Selection	1994 NASA Group
Mission insignia

 Early life

Kalpana Chawla a was born in a Punjabi family at Karnal, Haryana in 1961 to Banarasi Lal Chawla and Sanjyothi.^[1] She was born in Model Town Karnal. Her interest in flying was inspired by J. R. D. Tata, a pioneering Indian pilot and industrialist.^[2][3] Kalpana has two sisters (Sunita & Deepa) and a brother (Sanjay). Being the youngest the family members gave her the nickname "Montu". She met and married Jean-Pierre Harrison, a flying instructor and aviation writer, in 1983 and became a naturalized United States citizen in 1990.^[4]

Education

Chawla completed her earlier schooling at Tagore Public School, Karnal. She earned her B.E. degree in aeronautical engineering at Punjab Engineering College in Chandigarh in 1982. She moved to the United States in 1982 and obtained a M.S. degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington (1984). Chawla went on to earn a second M.S. degree in 1986 and a Ph.D. degree in aerospace engineering in 1988 from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Later that year she began working for NASA Ames Research Center as vice president of Overset Methods, Inc. where she did CFD research on Vertical/Short Takeoff and Landing. Chawla held a Certificated Flight Instructor rating for airplanes, gliders and Commercial Pilot licenses for single and multi-engine airplanes, seaplanes and gliders. She held an FCC issued Technician Class Amateur Radio license.

Chawla in the space shuttle simulator

2)Thiruvalluvar (Tamil: திருவள்ளுவர்) is a celebrated Tamil poet who wrote the Thirukkural, a work on ethics in Tamil literature. He is also known by other names like Theiva Pulavar, Valluvar and Poyyamozhi Pulavar.

According to tradition Thiruvalluvar was born at Mylapore. His wife Vasuki was a chaste and devoted lady, an ideal wife, who never disobeyed the orders of her husband, but always carried them out implicitly. Thiruvalluvar showed people that a person could lead the life of a Grihastha or householder, and at the same time, lead a divine life or a life of purity and sanctity. He showed people that there was no necessity to leave the family and become a Sannyasin to lead a divine life of purity and sanctity. All his wise sayings and teachings are now in book form and known as ‘Thirukkural’.^[

1] The Tamil Calendar is dated from that period and referred as Thiruvalluvar Aandu (Year).^[2]

The time period of Thiruvalluvar's existence has been based on mostly linguistic evidences rather than archeological evidences since none such has been determined.^[3] His period has been estimated to be between second century BC and 8th century AD.

Portrait of Thiruvalluvar

3)Sudha Kulkarni Murthy (Kannada: ಸುಧಾ ಮೂರ್ತಿ)(born August 19, 1950 in Shiggaon, Karnataka, India) is an Indian social worker and author. She is known for her philanthropic work through the Infosys Foundation. Among other things, she has initiated a move to provide all government schools in Karnataka with computer and library facilities. She also teaches computer science and writes fiction. Dollar Sose (Dollar daughter-in-law), a book originally she wrote inKannada and later translated to English as Dollar Bahu was adopted as a television serial in 2001.

Sudha Murthy ಸುಧಾ ಮೂರ್ತಿ
Born	August 19, 1950 (age 60) Shiggaon, Karnataka
Occupation	Social worker and writer.
Spouse	N. R. Narayana Murthy

 

She did B.E. in Electrical Engineering from the B.V.B. College of Engineering & Technology, Hubli. She stood first in Karnataka for which she received a gold medal from the Chief Minister of Karnataka. She also completed her M.E. in Computer Science in 1974 from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, stood first in her class and received a gold medal from the Indian Institute of Engineers.