Anuradha T K, Geosat Programme Director, ISRO Satellite center:
She started loving space when she was 9 and since then she was unstoppable. She got attached to space when she was hearing the live updates of Neil Armstong going to space. “I never liked subjects where I needed to remember a lot and science looked logical to me. I don’t believe that Indian girls think science is not meant for them and I think maths is their favorite subject,” she said.
In 1982, when Anuradha joined ISRO, there were only 5-6 women scientists working with her. “Today, more than 20-25% of Isro’s over 16,000 employees are women and we no longer feel special,” she laughed. “Sometimes I say that I forget that I’m a woman here. You don’t get any special treatment because you’re a woman, you’re also not discriminated against because you’re a woman. You’re treated as an equal here,” she concluded.
