Pratishta Deveshwar – 1st wheel-chair bound Student from India to Study at Oxford : June 2020

Pratishta Deveshwar, Delhi University student to be the first wheel-chair bound Indian student to study at Oxford.

A final year student currently at Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University.

P Deveshwar is admitted to study her Master’s in Public Policy, at Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford.

American-Indian Kshama Sawant leads ‘Black Lives Matter’ protest movement in Seattle : June 2020

Dr. Kshama Sawant – Seattle City Council Woman

Currently:

Seattle City Council Woman . First socialist elected in a major US city in decades

Education:

  • Ph.D – Economics, North Carolina State University
  • BS – Computer Science, Mumbai

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British Indian Parm Sandhu – First Woman of Colour – Senior Most Female Police Officer – Scotland Yard

Parm Sandhu (aka) Parm Kaur Sandhu, British Sikh , senior most female police officer of colour to reach the highest-rank in London’s Metropolitan Service.

Position/s:

  • Temporary Chief Superintendent, attached to Human Resources, Metropolitan Police
  • Borough Commander, Richmond-Upon-Thames – First Asian Woman in the history of the Force to hold this position

Award:

  • Asian Women of Achievement Award (2006)

Sania Mirza First Indian Tennis Player to Win ‘ Fed Cup Heart Award’ – May 2020

Sania Mirza is the First Indian Tennis Player to Win the International ‘Fed Cup Heart Award’ in the Asia/Oceanic group category.

The Award is an initiative of ‘International Tennis Federation’.

She has donated the prize money to the Telangana Chief Minister’s Relief Fund.

Indian Mountaineer Bhawna Dehariya Scales Australia’s Highest Mountain : March 2020

Bhawna Dehariya of Madhya Pradesh, successfully scaled the summit at Mount Kosciuszko, Australia’s highest mountain peak on March 10th, 2020 to co-incide with Holi.

Last year she scaled Mount Kilimanjaro on November 27th, 2019 to co-incide with Diwali.

Indian-American Ami Bhat among Top-10 ‘2020 Emerging Leaders in Health & Medicine’ – May 2020

Dr. Ami S Bhatt is one amongst the ‘2020 Emerging Leaders in Health and Medicine Scholars’ – announced by ‘The National Academy of Medicine’ (NAM).

Presently:

  • Assistant Professor of Medicine and Genetics, Stanford University
  • Director of Global Oncology Gentre for Innovation in Global Health, Stanford University

Education:

  • M.D.
  • Ph.D – Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of California, San Francisco

Award:

  • Finburg Award for Excellence in Teaching

NGO:

  • She is Co-Founder & Co-President along with Franklin Huang for non-profit organisation ‘Global Oncology’ www.globaonc.org.

Dia Mirza Joins 9 Women Leaders of the World – against CoronaVirus Initiative ‘ Rise for All’ – April 2020

Dia Mirza Bollywood Actress , Model , Entrepreneur and Environmentalist.

Dia Mirza joins nine women leaders across the world to support a global plan for social and economic recovery from the Covid-19 virus.

She will be part of ‘Rise for All’ – a global advocacy group and will be working towards funding the UN Response and Recovery Trust Fund.

Joining Mirza in this advocacy effort convened by the UN Deputy Secretary-General, Amina Mohammed is a host of dignitaries such as — President of Ethiopia Sahle-Work Zewde, Prime Minister of Norway and SDG Advocate Erna Solberg, SDG Advocate and Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser of Qatar, Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Mottley, UN Women Goodwill Ambassador of Pakistan Muniba Mazari, Executive Director of UNICEF Henrietta Fore, Executive Director of UN Women Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka and Executive Director of UNFPA Natalia Kanem.

Dia Mirza said that in the coming weeks, more women leaders from political, multilateral and business sectors are expected to join Rise For All

Indian-American Artist Zarina Hashmi

Zarina Hashmi artist – drawing, print making and sculpture. Based in New York city.

  • Served as Board Member of ‘New York Feminist Art Institute’
  • One of the 4 artists/ artist-group to represent India in its First entry at the ‘Venice Biennale’ in 2011
  • Artist-in-residence at the ‘Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University ( NYU)
  • Solo exhibition : ‘Zarina: Dark Roads (06 Oct 2017 – 02 Feb 2018)
  • Published Book : ‘Direction to my House’ – a memoir by visual artist Zarina Hashmi and Sarah Burney


Born in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh. Passed away in London on April 25th, 2020

First Woman, Vice-Admiral, Indian Navy – Punita Arora

Surgeon Vice-Admiral Punita Arora, PVSM, SM, VSM

Also concurrently holds the First for –

First Woman in India to hold the 2nd highest rank in the Indian Army – Lieutenant-General Punita Arora.

Awarded : Param Vishish Seva (PVSM), Sena Medal and Vishist Seva Medal (VSM)