NEW DELHI: Google on Sunday celebrates the country's first woman doctor with a special doodle on her 160th birth anniversary.
The Goodle homepage showcases a portrait of Ganguly with the image of the main building of Kolkata Medical College and Hospital in the background. This has been designed by Bengaluru-based artist Oddrija.
Along with Anandi Joshi, Ganguly became the first woman in colonial India to study medicine and earn a degree in 1886. While Joshi studied at Womans Medical College of Pennsylvania in the US, Ganguly pursued western medicine at Calcutta Medical College (CMC).
Born in a Brahmo family on July 18, 1861, Ganguly, along with Chandramukhi Basu, became the first female graduates in India, from Bethune College in Kolkata.