New Delhi: Google dedicated its doodle to Kadambini Ganguly, one of the first female doctors of India on the occasion of her 160th birth anniversary.
Google presented a doodle honouring her life and work on its national homepage.
Born on 18 July, 1861 in Bhagalpur British India, now Bangladesh, Ganguly was a vocal activist for women’s emancipation, a doctor, and a freedom fighter.
Happy 160th birthday to Dr. Kadambani Ganguly!
Ganguly was not only one of the nation’s 1st women to graduate college, but was also the 1st woman to be trained as a doctor within Indian borders ??#GoogleDoodle ? by guest artist @Oddrija2 → https://t.co/Zn2RuHJrbg pic.twitter.com/Q5yvpt30o4
— Google Doodles (@GoogleDoodles) July 17, 2021
Sharing her thought about the Doodle on the Google page, artist Oddrija said: “In the year of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have seen how medical infrastructure and doctors have been hailed as sheroes and heroes for becoming the saviors the world needs. Looking back in time, Kadambini Ganguly was a frontrunner in her contribution to medical infrastructure in India with her indomitable spirit and inquisitiveness that landed her a triple diploma in her studies in Western Medicine.
In the same spirit, working on this Doodle was a super proud moment for me—getting to represent a young, spirited woman from pre-independence Bangladesh because my own familial roots are also in Bangladesh. Alongside the same, I got to represent some aspect of my own home town which is Calcutta (Ganguly studied in Calcutta Medical College and worked for a long time in many hospitals across Calcutta).”
