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Janaki Ammal was born in Thalassery, Kerala on 4 November 1897. [1] Her father was Diwan Bahadur Edavalath Kakkat Krishnan, Dy.Collector of Malabar district. [2] Her mother, Devi Kuruvayi, was the daughter of John Child Hannyngton, colonial administrator and Resident at Travancore, and Kunhi Kurumbi Kuruvai.
Sistla Janaki (born 23 April 1938) is an Indian playback singer and occasional music composer from Andhra Pradesh. She is widely referred to as Janaki Amma and Nightingale of India . She is one of the best-known playback singers in History of Indian music.
K. P. Janaki Ammal (1917-1992) was a politician from Communist Party of India (Marxist) and president of All India Democratic Women's Association. [1] She represented Madurai East in the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly in 1967.
Janaki, who is known as "The Nightingale of South India", [3] is a recipient of an honorary doctorate [4] In 2013, she refused to accept Padma Bhushan , the third-highest civilian award of the Government of India , saying that it had come "too late" and that South Indian artists were not given their due recognition.
There are short biographies of the botanist E. K. Janaki Ammal, the chemists Asima Chatterjee and Darshan Ranganathan, India's first female physician Anandibai Joshee, the anthropologist Iravati Karve, the biochemist Kamala Sohonie, the medical researcher Kamal Ranadive, physicist B. Vijayalakshmi and meteorologist Anna Mani.
Janaki Ammal: Indian botanist 1897 1984-02 India: Jane W. Loudon: English science fiction writer 1807-08-19 1858-07-13 United Kingdom: Jane Colden: Botanist 1724-03-27 1766-03-10 United States: Jane Glazebrook: American botanist Jane Ingham: English botanist and scientific translator 1897-08-15 1982-09-10 United Kingdom: Janet Russell Perkins
Janaki Ammal was service-oriented and was a social activist. She had worked with the Sugunavardhini movement [ 32 ] [ 33 ] [ 34 ] to uplift women and people from the downtrodden sections of society. Along with her brother Dr.Ayyathan Gopalan, she conducted free medical camps while working at Calicut.
Janaki Amma (1920–2005), Indian judge of the Kerala High Court; Janaki Ammal (1897–1984), Indian botanist; Janaki Ballabh (1928–2022), Indian sinologist and translator; Janaki Ballabh Patnaik (1927–2015), Indian politician; Janaki Devi Bajaj (1893–1979), Indian independence activist; Janaki Devi Ram (born 1955), Nepalese politician