Janaki Ammal 1897 – 1984
PLANT SCIENTIST
very now and then, you get an unsung hero, a person in the background who quietly shapes the world with a mind that knows no bounds and a determination to succeed; this is none other than Edavalath Kakkat Janaki Ammal, one of India’s most renown botanists. Growing up in a large family, she spent most of her days in her father’s garden,
