People You Should Know Like Avani Chaturvedi

AVANI CHATURVEDI

Lieutenant Avani Chaturvedi has created history by becoming the first Indian woman in Indian Air Force to fly solo in the MiG-21 Bison, fighter plane. Avani's achievement has put India in the list of countries like Britain, the United States, Israel, and Pakistan, where women are allowed to fly fighter jets for their countries.

Avani was born on 27th October 1993 in Rewa, Satna district in Madhya Pradesh. Her mother is a homemaker and father, Dinkar Chaturvedi is an executive engineer in the water resource department in Madhya Pradesh Government. Avani's brother is an Army Officer and he was the biggest inspiration for Avani to join the Indian Air Force. She wanted to touch the sky and hence she joined the Flying Club in her college.

Avani has completed her schooling from Deoland, a small town in Shahdol district of Madhya Pradesh. She did her Bachelor's in computer science from Banasthali University, Rajasthan in 2014. Avani was a Core Team member of Mayusk (Annual Technical Fiesta of her University). During her college studies, Avani underwent a 6 month's internship as an Associate Software Engineer at Ranosys Technologies Pte Ltd. After completing her B.Tech she joined IBM as a system engineer and worked there for 3 years. But she always wanted to become a fighter pilot and hence she joined campus aviation school during her B.tech. It was a difficult task to clear verbal examination for Student Pilot License.

 "Our chief flight instructor, Captain S.D. Sharma and chief ground instructor Captain Gautam Bose discovered that Avani showed a great understanding of aviation. Captain Bose said, ‘This girl has spark; she is very promising’". - Dr. Seema Verma, the dean of aviation school

So, they started encouraging her and immensely pushed her to pursue her dream. Avani applied for the Indian Air Force exam and she cleared it. Next, she went on for a rigorous training at Hyderabad Airforce Academy in Dindigul. She worked hard and showed her dedication toward her dream. Avani's favorite scientist is Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam. She was the one among the first batch of three women who were selected by IAF when the government decided to permit women to apply to the fighter stream in October 2015. This batch was commissioned by the then Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar and two of her cohorts were flying officers Mohana Singh Jitarwal and Bhawana Kanth. Parrikar named the trio's induction day as a “red-letter day” and said his ministry was working towards bringing about “total gender parity” in the armed forces.

In July 2016, she started her journey in Indian Air Force at Jamnagar base on 19th February in a MiG-21.  Avani has also undertaken six months of training on Kiran trainer jets at Hakimpet, and then she went for a year-long training stint on Hawk advanced trainer jets at Bidar Air Base. It was February 2018, when Avani made the Nation proud and she became the first Indian woman to fly a fighter aircraft solo and It was a MiG-21 Bison.

"Chaturvedi became the first Indian woman to fly a fighter aircraft solo when she flew a MiG-21 bison in her first solo flight," the official said, according to a PTI report. "It is a unique achievement for Indian Air Force and the country," Air Commodore Prashant Dixit said. Avani also got featured in an advertisement for Indian Air Force recruitment. “There is a strong belief that combat, by nature, is a male occupation; that the army is a male space and combat the most masculine of all aspects of war," wrote senior social scientist and historian, Prem Chowdhry in her paper titled, ‘Women in the Army’, published in Economic and Political Weekly in August 2010. Avani worked hard and de-stablished this belief. Her achievement exponentially contributed to the complex narrative surrounding gender equality in India.

Avani has proved that being a woman is not a boundary if you have a dream to achieve, you need to work for it and nothing can stop you from achieving it. Before 2016, women made up just 2.5% of India's armed forces, working in mainly non-combat roles. Surely Avani'sachievement will help other Indian women to come out with their talent and to grow with their passion.

People You Should Know Like Rangachari Srikanth

Srikanth Rangachari– An Ordinary Teacher with Extraordinary Skills

Everything you can imagine is real and Srikanth has proved it by following her dreams and achieving two worldrecords. Srikanth is a small-town guy who made it big in life. He is a teacher from the profession yet he managed to serve two world records on his plate. This success credit goes to the hard work, dedication, and talent he has.

Rangachari Srikanth was born in 1993 in Telangana. His life was tough from an early age as he lost his father when he was five. He handled his life so maturely but unluckily life wasn't fair to him. In 2014 he lost his mother when he was just 21.  A lot of problems since a small age made him even stronger. His uncle Sudheer Swamy Bekkanti and aunt Godavari Bekkanti started taking care of him after this tragedy and they were so nice to him, they took care of him as their child. Srikanth was so dedicated to his studies. Studious Srikanth completed his graduation in B.Sc and then pursued D.Ed. He started his career as an ordinary teacher and joined a private school in Nirmal District to teach the students.

Srikanth wanted to become a scientist. He was inspired by Alexander the great and Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam. The harder you work, the luckier you get. There is no substitute for hard work. In 2016, Srikanth managed to get himself a place in Telugu Book of Records for reciting the English alphabet in just 1.420 seconds. He had the motivation to do even better. In 2017, he got himself listed in Telangana Book of Records for reciting the English Alphabet in reverse order in 1.420 seconds. Srikanth wasn't going to stop there. Next, he created a script to educate the tribal people. In his script of 51 letters, he has included currency symbols, mathematical symbols, regional symbols, and computer symbols. After creating this script he wrote 700 Shlokas of Shrimad Bhagavad Gita and this let him achieve the Amazing Book of Records in 2018. Isn't it great putting all the efforts, dedication and hard work on something which lets you achieve more and more and let you achieve your dreams?

As rightly said, an idle person can never gain anything if they sit and wait for a better opportunity to come, but the person who is working hard can gain success and happiness in life. Now Srikanth is working hard to break his record, he is trying to recite the English alphabet in 0.85 seconds and also reciting the same alphabet 52 times in a minute. He has another goal lined up in life to get his name listed in Limca Book of World Record. He is also working on writing a periodic table on sesame seed that will be another achievement of his life to set another record. You need to step out of your comfort zone to achieve something big in life and that's what Srikanth is doing continuously. Credit this  Indian Talent Srikanth's success goes to his passion, determination, and dedication. Till now has been able to achieve so much and moving forward as well he is going to do something big for India.

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People you should know like Gattem Venkatesh

Gattem Venkatesh – A Micro Artist

Gattem Venkatesh, a young talented artist was born on 28^th May, 1996 in Chinadoddigallu village in Andhra Pradesh. When he was a child, He used to visit artesian near his place. He used to ask a new question every time about their craft. These were the artist who used to carve on wood. He got this talent from these artists and started crafting.  When Venkatesh started doing this, he got so many people around to demotivate him as no one takes such things seriously. His relatives were seeing it as a pure waste of time. But luckily his parents were so supportive. They never listened to what others were saying. They supported him wholeheartedly.

Venkatesh is a 23 years young micro artist who carves his masterpieces on pencil lead, chalk pieces, matchsticks, and even toothpick. His parents told him not to mind anyone else just concentrate on his work. Venkatesh was moving forward slowly and steadily, he earned so many awards, set many records and everyone out there was praising his talent by this time. Venkatesh wanted to do something big, he wanted to achieve something. He tried to get a place in The Guinness Book of World Records. He applied for continuous two years but each time his application was rejected. It was so hard to keep up the same spirit while facing rejection for two long years. But Venkatesh didn't give up. He was so determined to reach there and touch the sky, he trusted his skills and kept trying.

He started studying world records and soon he found an opportunity when he noticed that he could create the smallest miniature of The Empire State Building. Without wasting much time, he was already onto it. It's unbelievable that this talented artist created a replica of the Empire State Building on an 18mm toothpick just in twenty-three minutes. He did his best and once again he applied for the same record.  It took some time for the officials to compare the existing replica and the new one created by Venkatesh and this time his hard work paid off. His name was added to the records. It was 2017 when Gattem’s talent recognized and his name was penned in the Guinness Book of World Records.

Venkatesh completed his B.Arch from GITAM School of Architecture, and then completed a doctorate in Arts and Crafts from Peace University, Germany. In July 2018, he finished his education and meanwhile managed to build over 400 pieces of artwork. He started his own venture named Venky Arts, where he helps students to live their artistic goals of life. After achieving so much, he didn't stop there, he continued visiting Art exhibits, attending school functions as chief guest.  Another big achievement of his life was when he was nominated for the Padma Shri, there he had a chance to meet the former Indian President, Pranab Mukherjee, who encouraged him to follow his dreams. He had also received the Ugadi Puruskar from the Andhra Pradesh Government in 2018.