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Achievers of India

It is never too late or even too early to excel at something that you feel passionate about. Read about some brilliant people who have made India very proud with their passion, talent and hard work! These people have shown that when you believe in yourself and work hard, you can excel at any field of your choice and can achieve success globally.

  • Prof. Satish Dhawan was an Indian rocket scientist who was born in Srinagar, India and educated in India and the United States.
  • He is considered by the Indian scientific community to be the father of experimental fluid dynamics research in India one of the most eminent researchers in the field of turbulence and boundary layers.
  • He succeeded Vikram Sarabhai, the founder of the Indian space program, as Chairman of ISRO in 1972.
  • In the decade following his appointment he directed the Indian space program through a period of extraordinary growth and spectacular achievement.
  • Prof. Satish Dhawan carried out pioneering experiments in rural education, remote sensing and satellite communications.
  • The Indian satellite launch centre at Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh was renamed as the Prof. Satish Dhawan Space Centre.
  • Ajit Kumar Doval is the current National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister of India
  • He previously served as the Director of the Intelligence Bureau in 2004–05, after spending a decade as the head of its operation wing.
  • At the age of just 27 he suppressed the infamous Thalassery riots in Kerala within a week.
  • He went undercover in Amritsar as a part of Operation Black Thunder. His mission was to target millitiants holed up in the Golden Temple.He disguised himself as a rickshaw puller and convinced millitiants that he was a pakistani inteligence officer and got very crucial info which led to the success of mission and he was awarded the Kirti Chakra.
  • As NSA he conducted surgical strikes in POK in retaliation to the uri attack.
  • In 2019 he conducted air strikes in Pakistan in response to the pulwama attack.
  • Field Marshal Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw,widely known as Sam Manekshaw and Sam Bahadur was the Chief of the Army Staff of the Indian Army during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
  • He was the first Indian Army officer to be promoted to the rank of field marshal.
  • His active military career spanned four decades and five wars, beginning with service in the British Indian Army in World War II.
  • In World War II, he was awarded the Military Cross for gallantry.
  • Manekshaw became the seventh chief of the army staff in 1969.
  • He was awarded the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan, the second and third highest civilian awards of India.
  • Kiran Bedi is the first woman in India to join the officer ranks of the Indian Police Service and started her service in 1972.
  • She remained in service for 35 years before taking voluntary retirement in 2007.
  • She started her career as an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP).
  • She won the President's Police Medal in 1979.
  • She introduced several reforms at Tihar Jail, which gained worldwide acclaim and won her the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 1994.
  • In 2003, She became the first Indian and first woman to be appointed as head of the United Nations Police and Police Advisor in the United Nations Department of Peace Operations.
  • She was one of the key leaders of the 2011 Indian anti-corruption movement, and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in January 2015.