Woman power   in Lok Sabha    Mrs.Pratibha Patil India's first women Presiden  of India took oath on the July 25, 2007 nearly two years before.    Sonia Gandhi is the president of the ruling Congress as also the chairperson of the UPA, the alliance that runs the government.     Mrs.Meira Kumar India's first women Lok Sabha Speaker    in the  Lok Sabha 2009 selected as  Speaker   Thus woman power is in full display as three top posts in the country's constitutional and political arena are now being held by the fairer sex.     Mamta Banerjee of Trinamool Congress, whose party with 19 members is the second largest in the ruling alliance. is the Railways minister,    There are several woman ministers in the Union Council, including Ambika Soni, Kumari Selja, D Purandeshwari, Krishna Tirath, Panabaka Lakshmi and Praneet Kaur, among 59 women member of Lok sbaha this time.   Agatha Sangma (28) is the 'baby' of the cabinet while Meira Kumar herself was a cabinet minister till last week.    Among the leading lights of the opposition are Sushma Swaraj of BJP as also Sumitra Mahajan. Jaya Prada of SP has literally fought her way to the Lok Sabha for the second time.    The first-timers include Shruti Chaudhury, Jyoti Mirdha, Mausam Noor  and Anu Tandon (all Congress), Supriya Sule (NCP) and Shatabdi Roy (Trinamool).

Mrs. Pratibha Patil          Sonia Gandhi

The Women with a great  regard in society     Lata Mangeshkar     Kalpana Chawla     Kiran Bedi     Arundhati Roy

Meira Kumar

Sunita Williams Sunita Williams made history when she became the second woman of Indian origin after Kalpana Chawla to walk in space.  It was the culmination of a long journey for Sunita after being selected by NASA in June 1998 for a space mission as a flight engineer on the International Space Station. After six years of training, Sunita took off on the space shuttle Discovery on December 9, 2006 and is scheduled to be in space for about 6 months.   Sunita started off her career as a helicopters and aeroplane pilot, and applied to NASA after logging in 2,770 hours in the cockpits of as many as 30 different aircraft. Born to a Gujarati father, Dr Deepak Pandya and Bonnie, of Yugoslavian descent, Sunita is proud of her Indian roots. She took along with her an idol of Ganesha, a copy of the Bhagavad Gita and samosas to eat in space. An animal lover, Sunita says she would have been a veterinarian if she hadn’t become an astronaut.  Sania Mirza   Sania Mirza has ventured where no Indian woman had gone before. She planted herself firmly in the annals of Indian sporting history when she became the first Indian woman to win a WTA singles title at the Hyderabad Open in 2005. The same year, she also became the first Indian woman to reach the fourth round of a Grand Slam Tournament at the US Open. Today, Sania is among the Top 50 woman tennis players in the world - yet another first for an Indian woman.    Sania had an early start in competitive tennis, picking up a tennis racquet at the age of six. She turned pro at the tender age of 13, and hasn’t looked back since. Sania is the ultimate poster girl of the Indian media. She is admired for daring to be different, wearing her attitude on her sleeve. She’s often seen in T-shirts with lines that say “I’m cute, no shit”, “Well-behaved women rarely make history”, and “You either agree with me or you’re wrong”.    Her greatest inspiration, she says, is when a girl comes to her and says “I picked up a tennis racquet because of you”. She’s certainly an inspiration for any Indian girl.                                                                                                             ..   The women famous for their talents   . Asha Bhosle   . Kiran Mazumdar Shaw   . Barkha Dutt   . Indra Nooygi     Ekta Kapoor     Rani Mukherjee  .  Preity Zinta  .  Aishwarya Rai   . Shabna Azmi     Rekha

Mamta Banerjee        Lata Mangeshkar      Sunita Williams             Sania Mirza

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