Mithali Raj features on BBC’s 100 Women list

The BBC has on Wednesday revealed Mithali Raj as one of the most influential women in India. Additionally, Ira Trivedi and Tulika Kiran from Delhi along with Aditi Avasthi from Bangalore and Mehroonisa Siddiqui are among the inspirational individuals who have been included on the BBC 100 Women list 2017.

The list has been inspired by the BBC 100 Women Challenge. This is a unique celebration of female talent which sees four teams of women tasked with finding solutions to everyday problems currently blighting female lives across the globe.

Indians in the list:

Mithali Raj – Indian cricketer and captain of Indian women’s cricket team.

Ira Trivedi – Writer, yoga teacher and activist. Through her writing, her teaching and her not for profit work, she hopes to sensitise minds, bodies and spirits to feel the oneness that we are all part of.

Aditi Avasthi – Founder and CEO at Embibe – an edtech platform leveraging deep tech and data science to revolutionise education as a sector. In her quest to maximise learning outcomes for every student, Aditi has spearheaded the company’s evolution into the world’s leading artificial intelligence platform for education with numerous inventions and patents to create tangible impact on student learning.

Tulika Kiran – She has been teaching kids in the Tihar prison for the last 8 years. Apart from teaching kids at the prison, she is a part of an organisation India Vision Foundation (founded by Kiran Bedi) that facilitates secondary education for kids in the prison. In the past Tulika has been a journalist and has worked for a Hindi publication Sunday Observer.

Mehroonisa Siddiqui – She is 65 years old and is the proud mother of Indian actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui.

Dr Urvashi Sahni – She is a social entrepreneur, women’s rights activist and educationist of 34 years standing. She is an Asoka Fellow, a non-resident fellow at the Centre of Universal Education at Brookings, Washington DC and an advisor to the Government of Rajasthan for education.

Nitya Thummalachetty – She is currently a business analyst at CareCentra, a health care analytics company based out of New York City that has developed a proprietary tech platform for improving health outcomes for patients. After her doctoral studies, she became the Director of Diversity Policy at FortunaPIX. In this role, she is involved in building strategic partnerships (for example, with UN Women and various Ministries of Education and/or Health) and leading initiatives for gender and diversity.