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Who's Who among South Asian Women

Latest: ~ Renu Khator ~ Vijaya Nirmala ~ Pratibha Patil ~ Tarabai Shinde ~ Shamima Shaikh ~ Mukhtar Mai ~ Ela Gandhi ~ Tanika Gupta ~ Nina Puri ~ Pasang Lhamu Sherpa

Media

Thrity Umrigar (writer/journalist)

Ektaa Kapoor (TV producer)

Barkha Dutt (Anchor/reporter, Star News)

Sucheta Dalal (investigative journalist)

Geeta Anand (journalist)

Shobhana Bhartia (media baron)

Mishal Husain (BBC anchor)

Pinki Virani (writer/journalist)

Tavleen Singh (columnist)

Namita Gokhale (writer/journalist)

...and more...

Science&Technology/Business

Sister Avelin Mary (marine biologist)

Bhama Srinivasan (mathematician)

Vinita Gupta (Silicon Valley entrepreneur)

Kalpana Chawla (astronaut)

Salima Ikram (Egyptologist)

Lubna Khalid (businesswoman/model)

Sunita Williams (astronaut)

Lata Krishnan (Silicon Valley entrepreneur)

Indra Nooyi (Pepsico president)

Arati Prabhakar (scientist)

...and more...

Sports

Diana Eduljee (cricketer)

Ming Kipa (mountaineer)

P.T. Usha (athlete)

Mohini Bhardwaj (gymnast)

Roopa Unnikrishnan (rifle shooter)

Pasang Lhamu Sherpa (mountaineer)

Sania Mirza (tennis)

Bachendri Pal (mountaineer)

Susanthika Jayasinghe (sprinter)

Lhakpa Sherpa (mountaineer)

...and more...

Arts

Indira Mahajan (soprano)

Tanuja Desai Hidier (writer/singer)

Anjolie Ela Menon (artist)

Bif Naked (rocker)

Tanika Gupta (playwright)

Merle Oberon (actress)

Anoushka Shankar (sitarist)

Racquel Zonte (guitarist)

Anuradha Pal (tabalchi)

Protima Bedi (freespirited dancer)

...and more...

Politics

Benazir Bhutto (politician)

Vasundhara Raje (politician)

Sheikh Hasina Wajed (politician)

Sonia Gandhi (politician)

Chandrika Kumaratunge (politician)

Sushma Swaraj (politician)

Uma Bharti (politician)

Phoolan Devi (dacoit/politician)

Priyanka Gandhi (politician)

Fatima Jinnah (politician)

...and more...

Activism

Alice Garg (educator)

Shamima Shaikh (activist)

Maneka Gandhi (politician/activist)

Asma Jahangir (lawyer)

Irshad Manji (writer/activist)

Urvashi Vaid (gay rights activist)

Sufia Kamal (poet/activist)

Vandana Shiva (environmental activist)

Mukhtar Mai (activist)

Brinda Karat (women's activist)

...and more...

Writers

Kamala Das (poetry fiction)

Qurratulain Hyder (fiction)

Minal Hajratwala (nonfiction, journalism)

Pinki Virani (nonfiction journalism)

Jean Arasanayagam (poetry fiction)

Sorayya Khan (fiction)

Samina Ali (fiction)

Chandra Prasad (fiction, nonfiction)

Fehmida Riaz (poetry)

Esther David (fiction)

...and more...

& Other Notable Women

Romila Thapar (historian)

Raji Jallepalli (fusion chef)

Attiya Inayatullah ()

Vidya Dehejia (art curator)

Yasmeen Ghauri (supermodel)

Noor Inayat Khan (WWII spy)

Sister Nirmala (social worker)

Nina Puri (President, Int'l Planned Parenthood Federation)

Arundhati Ghose (ambassador)

Leila Seth (chief justice)

...and more...


Who makes it to this list?
Alphabetical list
Last updated 10 Sep 2008



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