A woman of many firsts! Dr Sivaramakrishna Iyer Padmavati was the first woman cardiologist in India. She established the first cardiac clinic and cardiac catheter lab in India, and founded India’s first heart foundation. Being a legendary cardiologist, she has left behind an enduring legacy in her field.

Padmavati was born in Burma (now Myanmar) on 20 June 1917 to a barrister father. She excelled in school and earned the first medical degree awarded to a female student at Rangoon Medical College. Just after she completed her medical studies, Japan invaded Burma at the height of World War II, and she along with her mother and sisters had to flee the country and settle in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. She was eventually reunited with her father and brothers when World War II ended.

Later, Padmavati went to England to pursue her higher studies in medicine where she worked at the National Heart Hospital and National Chest Hospital in London. She received the Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP) in London in 1949. During this period, she developed an interest in cardiology, which remained her first love throughout her life.

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When you and I question, ‘Why?’ he would ask ‘Why not?’ That’s exactly how he proved himself by manufacturing the world’s smallest and cheapest car, The Tata Nano, for the Indian market in 2009. He is none other than Ratan Tata, a prominent Indian industrialist and one of the most successful business tycoons in the world who singlehandedly took the Tata Group to global heights. In his own words, “The greatest pleasure I’ve had is trying to do something which everybody says ‘could not be done’.”

On 28 December 1937, Ratan Tata was born into the Tata family, one of the wealthiest business families in Bombay, India. His parents, Naval and Sonoo divorced when he was ten years old, and he was raised by his grandmother. Ratan did his schooling at Campion School, Cathedral and John Connon School in Mumbai, and also studied at Bishop Cotton School in Shimla. For further studies, he went to New York’s Cornell University in 1962, and later earned a management degree from Harvard University.

On returning from America, Ratan started working as an apprentice at the Tata Steel Division, labouring alongside blue-collar workers, shovelling stones and working with the furnaces.

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