Google Doodle celebrates India's first woman pilot Sarla Thukral's 107th birth anniversary
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Sarla Thukral was the first Indian woman to pilot an aircraft. Google celebrated her birth anniversary with a high-flying doodle illustrated by guest artist Vrinda Zaveri.
Google Doodle celebrated Sarla Thukral’s 107th birth anniversary with an illustration on August 8. She was the first Indian woman to pilot an aircraft. The high-flying doodle was illustrated by guest artist Vrinda Zaveri. “Thukral left such a lasting legacy for women in aviation that we decided to run the Doodle this year in honour of her 107th birthday,” the Google Doodle page wrote. Sarla Thukral was born in Delhi, British India, on August 8, 1914, and later moved to Lahore, in present-day Pakistan. Inspired by her husband who was an airmail pilot from a family of fliers, she began training to follow in their footsteps.More Related News