Sudipta Sengupta, the first Indian woman to conquer Antarctica

Imagine an Indian woman in the 1980s overcoming her dread of the unknown and venturing to the icy Antarctica. Yes, there was a time when Indian women were reluctant to take up strenuous careers, let alone embark on extreme adventure journeys. Sudipta Sengupta, a professor at Jadavpur University's Structural Geology Department and a former employee of the Geological Survey of India, not only defeated patriarchy at work, but also performed something that women in her age could never have dreamed.