Observer 25 Apr 2012 - Oman Daily Observer

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 2012
The woman behind missile test launch
TESSY Thomas, the key scientist for Agni-V in Defence Research and Development Organisation and the rst woman
scientist to head a missile project, attending a missile press conference in New Delhi recently. — AFP
NEW DELHI — Hailed as a
trail blazer in male-dominated
India, Tessy Thomas juggles
domestic duties with her day
job — as the country’s top ballistic
missile expert.
Thomas was project director
for the Agni V long-range
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nuclear-capable missile which
was test-red last week in a
major military advance that
will give India the ability to hit
all of China’s cities for the rst
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Woman” in the local media,
she has lent a new and unusual
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face to the secretive world of
India’s Defence Research and
Development Organisation
(DRDO).
But while the Roman Catholic
from southern Kerala state
has changed perceptions of her
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dition along the way, she says
she remains the doting wife
and mother at home.
“In Indian culture, we feel
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so a little bit of challenges are
there,” the 48-year-old said.
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“But all my lady colleagues
are also doing the same, just
like me.”It was slightly tough,
but I could do it by balancing
my time” between home and
work.
Not all of her female colleagues
have risen to such
a position of prominence
however. The Agni V was a
prestige project for India. Its
5,000-kilometre range is seen
as vital for national defence
and another demonstration of
the nation’s rising power.
President Pratibha Patil,
another woman in a prominent
position, commented after the
launch that “the work of Thomas
in the Agni programme
would hopefully inspire more
women in choosing careers in
science”. In January, Indian
Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh said that Thomas was
an example of a “woman making
her mark in a traditionally
male bastion and decisively
breaking the glass ceiling”.
Thomas joined the DRDO
in 1988 and went on to work
under A P J Abdul Kalam, the
architect of the national missile
development programme who
later became India’s president.
Her initial focus was on
the guidance systems for the
various Agni missiles. The
rst variant was ight-tested
in 1989. Her stewardship of
the Agni V came after the rst
launch of the 3,500-kilometre-
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range Agni III in 2006.
The mother of a son and
wife of a naval ofcer insists
there is no gender discrimination
in predominantly male
DRDO, where about 200 female
colleagues work in its
dozens of ordnance factories
and research facilities.
Thomas says she decided
to go into missiles — which
she regards as instruments of
peace because of their deterrence
value — after watching
rocket tests from a launch centre
near her home.
“As schoolchildren we
used to go on picnics to watch
the rocket tests and I would be
fascinated. Besides, I was always
interested in science and
mathematics,” she said.
Such is her passion for Indian
defence hardware that she
named her college-age son Tejas
— after India’s indigenously-built
light combat aircraft.
Between her kitchen at
home in the southern city of
Hyderabad and poring over
complex telemetry data at
work, Thomas, who holds an
engineering doctorate, has now
set herself another challenge.
“I am currently working
on mission and guidance
(systems) of the multiple independent
re-entry vehicle,”
the scientist said, referring to
proposed new technology to
deliver multiple warheads with
a single missile. — AFP
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A village for dwarves!
GUWAHATI — Almost 70
dwarves, ranging from oneand-a-half
feet to three feet in
height, across Asom will soon
have a place to live in with
dignity and comfort, with a
theatre actor setting up a village
with houses adapted to
their stature.
Pabitra Rabha, a National
School of Drama (NSD)
graduate and a theatre personality
of the state, is setting
up the special home for these
short people in Jalah village
near Tangla in lower Asom’s
Udalguri district, about 90 km
away from the state’s main
city of Guwahati.
“I have got four bighas of
land for the project ‘Amar
Gaon’, meaning our village in
Asomese. We are now working
on the designs of houses
for the people. The houses in
the village will be designed in
a way so that the ‘little people’
can live in comfortably in
the houses,” said Rabha said.
“It is difcult for them to
live in normal houses due to
their physical stature. But
at the same time the houses
should not be too small as that
can again affect the psyche of
these people.”
Amar Gaon will include
houses, a centre for their professional
training and skill
development and a place for
rehearsals as well as other aspects
of their lives.
“There are about 70 such
people in various districts of
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Asom. It took me four years to
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these people. At present eight
of them are working with us.
We are planning to accommodate
at least 30 of them
in Amar Gaon initially,” said
Rabha who also runs a theatre
group called Dapon.
Dapon is the only alldwarves
theatre group in India,
he claimed, while adding
that Amar Gaon will be the
rst such project for dwarves
in the entire country.
Rabha, who had carried out
a survey across Asom to nd
out the population of dwarves
across Asom in 2008, has also
been trying to add dignity to
their lives by engaging these
people in theatre.
In 2010, he staged a play
titled Kinu Kou (What can I
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Rabindra Bhavan.
The play, which was all about
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the stigma they face, drew
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“I was very curious about
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When I started the survey,
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adding that each of the participants
in his play has the
talent and the determination
to achieve any given target.
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