Women's Day!
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- 2. President of the National Federation of Indian Women and founder of the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan
- 3. First ISRO female scientist to live more than a year in Antarctica.
- 7. First Indian female doctor of western medicine
- 9. First woman in India to contest in elections from Madras Constituency
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- 1. Officer of the Indian National Army and the Minister of Women's Affairs in the Azad Hind government. Also referred to in India as Captain Lakshmi
- 3. The first to hoist the Tiranga on foreign soil on August 22, 1907.
- 4. An independence activist of India remembered for organizing the Congress Radio
- 5. First female president of the Indian National Congress
- 6. Organic chemist and phytomedicine known for her research on vinca alkaloids, the development of anti-epileptic drugs, and development of anti-malarial drugs.
- 8. Remembered for hoisting the Indian National flag at the Gowalia Tank maidan, Bombay during the Quit India Movement in 1942.