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Meet woman, widowed at 18, became first female engineer in India, worked with United Nations; not from IIT, NIT; she is...

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Ayyalasomayajula Lalitha was born in 1919 into a middle-class Telugu family in Chennai -- today the capital city of Tamil Nadu. She was the fifth of a total of seven siblings. While her brothers pursued careers in engineering, her sisters were limited to basic school education.
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