Kalpana Chawla : A Life

Born into a conservative family in a provincial town in Haryana Kalpana Chawla dreamt of the stars. And through sheer hard work indomitable intelligence and immense faith in herself she became the first PBI - Indian woman to travel to space and even more remarkably to travel twice. In this well-researched biography journalist Anil Padmanabhan talks to people who knew her― family and friends at Karnal and colleagues at NASA―to produce a moving portrait of a woman whose life was a shining affirmation that if you have a dream no matter how hard it is you can achieve it.