On this International womens day, I would like to pay tribute to some of the famous women personalities of our country. Not to forget the important roles played by our Mother, sisters, wives, daughters and girlfriends, they are all so important in our life! without whom our life would have been incomplete.
1. Raziya Sultan
The only woman ever to sit on the throne of Delhi. she was trained to lead armies and administer kingdoms. Contrary to custom, her father selected her, over her brothers, to be his successor. She established peace and order, encouraged trade, built roads, planted trees, dug wells, supported poets, painters, and musicians, constructed schools and libraries appeared in public without the veil, wore tunic and headdress of a man. State meetings were often open to the populace at-large.
2. Kittur Chennamma:
Kitturu Rani Chennamma (Kannada: ಕಿತ್ತೂರು ರಾಣಿ ಚೆನ್ನಮ್ಮ ) (born October 23, 1778 in Kakati, Belgaum District, Karnataka, India – died February 21, 1829) was the Queen of Kittur, India. She was best known for leading an armed rebellion against the British East India Company in 1824. The resistance ended with her arrest and she became a symbol of the independence movement in India. In the state of Karnataka, she is celebrated along with Abbakka Rani, Keladi Chennamma and Onake Obavva.
Ref: wikipedia.org/Kittur Chennamma
3. Jhansi ki Raani Laxmi bai:
Lakshmibai, the Rani of Jhansi (19 November 1828 – 18 June 1858; Marathi: झाशीची राणी लक्ष्मीबाई) was the queen of the Maratha-ruled princely state of Jhansi, situated in the north-central part of India. She was one of the leading figures of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and for Indian nationalists a symbol of resistance to the rule of the British East India Company in the subcontinent.
Ref: wikipedia.org/Rani Lakshmibai
4. Captain Laxmi Sehgal
Captain Laxmi Sehgal, was a revolutionary of the Indian independence movement, an officer of the Indian National Army, and the Minister of Women's Affairs in the Azad Hind government. Sahgal is commonly referred to in India as Captain Lakshmi, a reference to her rank when taken prisoner in Burma during the Second World War.
Ref: wikipedia.org/Lakshmi Sahgal
5. Veer mata Jijabai:
The great mother who nurtured and motivated Shivaji to form a great Maratha empire without formal army. There are thousands of mothers who inspire and motivate their children to become good citizens of the world.
6. Akka Mahadevi:
Akka Mahadevi (ಅಕ್ಕ ಮಹಾದೇವಿ) was a prominent figure of the Veerashaiva Bhakti movement of the 12th century Karnataka. Her Vachanas in Kannada, a form of didactic poetry, are considered her most notable contribution to Kannada Bhakti literature. In all she wrote about 430 Vachanas which is relatively fewer than that compared to some other saints of her time. Yet the term 'Akka' (elder Sister), which is an honorific given to her by great Veerashaiva saints like Basavanna, Chenna Basavanna, Kinnari Bommayya, Siddharama, Allamaprabhu and Dasimayya, speaks volumes of her contribution to the movement that was underway. She is in hindsight seen as a great and inspirational woman for Kannada literature and the history of Karnataka. She is said to have accepted the god Shiva ('Chenna Mallikarjuna') as her husband, traditionally understood as the 'madhura bhava' or 'madhurya' form of devotion.
Ref: wikipedia.org/Akka Mahadevi
7. Indira Gandhi:
She is the 2nd longest serving prime minister of india from 1966-77 and 1980-till her death. India was a very naive, poor country when she became prime minister of India and she handled the responsibilities beautifully. She had centralised the powers but that may be the right thing at that time for India's better future. Her major achievements are Liberation of Bangladesh, She nationalised banks, abolished privy purses of maharajas and conducted first nuclear tests at Pokhran.
8. Chanda Kochar:
Chanda Kochhar (born 17 November 1961) is the managing director (MD) of ICICI Bank and its chief executive officer (CEO). ICICI Bank is India's largest private bank and overall second largest bank in the country. She also heads the Corporate Centre of ICICI Bank.
Kochhar was born in Jodhpur, Rajasthan and raised in Jaipur, Rajasthan. She is an alumnus of St. Angela Sophia School, Jaipur. She then moved to Mumbai, where she joined Jai Hind College for a Bachelor of Arts degree. After graduating in 1982 she then pursued Cost Accountancy ICWAI, Later, she acquired the Masters Degree in Management Studies from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai. She received the Wockhardt Gold Medal for Excellence in Management Studies as well as the J. N. Bose Gold Medal in Cost Accountancy for highest marks in the same year.
Ref: wikipedia.org/Chanda Kochhar
9. Indra Nooyi:
She is an Indian-American business executive and the current Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer of PepsiCo, the second largest food and beverage business in the world by net revenue. According to Forbes, she is consistently ranked among the World's 100 Most Powerful Women. In 2013, she has been ranked 10th in the list of Forbes World's 100 most powerful women.
Ref: wikipedia.org/Indra Nooyi
