Nandita Das

Nandita Das (born 7 November 1969) is an award-winning Indian film actress and director. As an actress, she is known for her critically acclaimed performances in Fire (1996), Earth (1998), Bawandar (2000) and Aamaar Bhuvan (2002). As a director, she is known for her directorial debut Firaaq (2008), which has won a number of national and international awards, including Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by Government of France.

Think it over

"The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all." - Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, leader of Burma's democracy movement

Lorena Ochoa, the world's top-ranked women's golfer, announced her retirement

Lorena Ochoa, 28, announced Tuesday that she was stepping away from competitive golf, ending her reign as the LPGA's top player and, arguably, the most dominant female athlete on the planet.
Ochoa's list of accomplishments includes 27 career victories, two major championship triumphs and the last four LPGA player of the year awards.For all of Ochoa's lofty accomplishments, she became a cross-cultural icon because of her humanitarian works and because all of her success never changed her shy, sweet nature. Ochoa's spectacular talent and starpower will be sorely missed by the LPGA, but her retirement will not end her public life. She means too much to too many.


"I love golf, I love competing, I love winning," Ochoa told me in 2008. "I have worked very hard to get to this point and I am definitely enjoying it. But there will be a time to stop, to concentrate on other things that matter. I look forward to that. I look forward to a life that is a little more simple. I like that word. Yes, simple. That is what I look forward to."

Anoushka Shankar

Anoushka Shankar , born 9 June 1981, is a sitar player and composer. She is the daughter of Ravi Shankar, Indian sitar player, and Sukanya Rajan, a bank employee. Through her father, she is the half-sister of Grammy Award winner Norah Jones.

Shankar began training on the sitar with her father as a child, gave a public performance at the age of thirteen, and signed her first record contract at 16.[1]

She released her first album, Anoushka, in 1998. Later, in February 2000, Shankar became the first woman to perform at The Ramakrishna Centre in Kolkata. Both Shankar and her half-sister, Norah Jones, were nominated for Grammy awards in 2003.[1]

Shankar, in collaboration with Karsh Kale, released Breathing Under Water on 28 August 2007. It is a mix of classical sitar and electronica beats and melodies. Notable guest vocals include her half-sister, Norah Jones, Sting, and Ravi Shankar who performs a sitar duet with his daughter.

In 2009, Anoushka started writing weekly columns for HT City, the lifestyle supplement of Hindustan Times. These columns appear online on social network Desimartini.

Awards
British House of Commons Shield, 1998.
Woman of the Year (shared with Kareena Kapoor, Ritu Beri, and Rhea Pillai) awarded on International Women's Day 2003.

Anoushka Shankar Live at Verbier Festival - Mishra Pilu