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Anamika Chaturvedi : From a Physicist to an Award Winning Environmentalist

Anamika Chaturvedi I am extremely delighted as I write story of my own friend Anamika Chaturvedi, today here, at this platform of Success Stories “From Caterpillar to Butterfly”; more so when I am writing for my blog after a long gap. We first met in college in our Physics class and soon became best friends. That was early 1990s; though opposite in nature, we had a great bonding. While I was usually quite, she had a tendency to fight for the right. Born and brought up in Rajasthan, Anamika always wanted to work for equal rights of women in all spheres of life. As she grew she learnt that she could achieve this only if she acquires some powerful position and thus she became a civil service aspirant. Her own brother, who was an RAS (Rajasthan Administrative Services) Officer, became her inspiration. But as she entered college and secured admission in Physics (Hons); she fell in love with Physics and Mathematics. There, she didn’t like the way some lecturers were teaching and...