women innovators

She chose science over marriage in 1932, battled discrimination, and developed the sugarcane variety that changed India’s future. Meet Dr Janaki Ammal — the brilliant botanist whose work sweetened an entire nation.

After struggling with gaps in India’s gynaec care system themselves, Divya Kamerkar and Akanksha Vyas built Pinky Promise — a chat-first, AI-powered women’s healthcare platform that now helps over 4 lakh Indian women access private, judgment-free medical care from real doctors.

Indian women scientists are driving breakthroughs in space exploration, AI healthcare, mathematics and science communication, reshaping India’s future through precision-led innovation.

In Bhopal, a biochemistry graduate set up her first mushroom bags inside a spare room just to see what would happen. That small test drew her deeper into the world of cultivation, learning, and community, shaping a journey she never saw coming.

Alka Zadkaonkar innovated a pollution-free technology in 2003 that converts plastic to fuel using de-polymerisation. With her husband, Dr Umesh, she discusses their technology, the challenges they faced along the way and how we can manage plastic waste better.

Arunjyoti Lokhanday (50), a resident of Nalgonda, Telangana makes seed paper napkins out of the wet waste generated in her kitchen. Her creative solution was recently appreciated by the Telangana State Innovation Cell.

After two years of experiments and tests, researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur have invented an eco-friendly packaging material from cucumber peels.

Breaking into a male bastion, Hemalatha believes and exemplifies that dreams and ideas indeed don't have genders. #WomenPower #GreenIndia #ElectricMobility