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How are Tessy Thomas worked to break the stereotypes of the society?
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If former President APJ Abdul Kalam was the Missile Man of India, Tessy Thomas is the Agniputri (daughter born out of fire). The first woman scientist to head a missile project in India, Tessy has a doctorate in Missile Guidance. Currently she is the Director General of Aeronautical Systems (DG-Aero) at DRDO; the fifth woman to adorn that position.

In 2013, Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) launched the Agni-V, an intercontinental ballistic missile that has a range of over 5,000 miles.

While people hailed the missile and its achievement by DRDO in launching a long-range device that could give China some worries, its project director Dr Tessy Thomas, hailed as India’s first missile woman stood in the background, much like India’s missile man Dr APJ Abdul Kalam. In January 2012, a year before the successful launch, the then Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh told the Indian Science Congress that Tessy was an example of a “woman making her mark in a traditionally male bastion and decisively breaking the glass ceiling.”

Dr Thomas — who is today one of India’s leading experts in ballistic missiles, says that her love for rockets come from the time she spent growing up near the Thumba rocket launching station.

From her initial fascination with rockets, Tessy, thanks to some able mentoring from her mother, developed interest in solid state physics during her time in school. She eventually went on to study engineering at Thrissur College in Kerala where she did research in missile technology.“My mother is my inspiring model,” Tessy Thomas said in an interview, explaining how her parents had raised her as a child. Her mother’s words to her were — “Show your potential.” And she did.