Google doodles on Anandi Gopal Joshi’s birth anniversary
New York, Mar 31 (IBNS): Popular search engine Google on Saturday decorated its website with a doodle celebrating India’s first woman doctor Anandi Gopal Joshi’s 153rd birth anniversary.
In 1886, a young doctor stepped off a ship from America, eager to take up the role of physician in charge of the female ward at Kolhapur’s Albert Edward Hospital. Not only was she India’s first female doctor, but she was only 19 years old at the time. Her name was Anandi Gopal Joshi, and her story is one of courage and perseverance, s per the Google doodle website.
Joshi was married at the age of nine, as was the custom in 19th century India.
Her husband encouraged her to continue her education and her interest in medicine. At sixteen, battling ill-health but determined to succeed, Joshi set sail for America.
She earned her medical degree from the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania (now known as Drexel University College of Medicine) and returned to India with dreams of opening a medical college for women, read the Google Doodle website.
The website further said on the Doodle that it was created by Bangalore-based artist Kashmira Sarode who imagines Joshi celebrating her degree.
Google often celebrates special days of the year, events and celebrity birthdays by decorating its homepage with doodles.
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