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Priyanka is an Alumni Ambassador for the France Alumni Project and presently resides in Paris...
Digital Desk: Priyanka Das Rajkakati, an Assamese aerospace engineer, will be among the 250 invited guests when French President Emmanuel Macron hosts Prime Minister Narendra Modi for dinner at the famed Louvre museum in Paris during the latter's two-day visit to the country.
Additionally, the guests invited to Modi's dinner on July 14, France's National Day, also known as Bastille Day, will be treated to a special viewing of some classic paintings. This year's Bastille Day honoree is Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Priyanka plans to wear an Assamese'mekhela chador' to the dinner and wishes to give PM Modi an artwork of her own as a gift. Despite being born to Assamese parents, Priyanka spent the majority of her childhood in Delhi. Her father, Manoj Kumar Das, originates from Dhemaji and previously held senior posts in the North Eastern Development Finance Corporation and the North Eastern Regional Agricultural Marketing Corporation, as well as Priyanka's mother, Ajanta Baruah Das, who is a doctor.
Priyanka is an Alumni Ambassador for the France Alumni Project and presently resides in Paris. She has previously been named to the Forbes India 30 Under 30 list, the Karman Fellowship, and India Today's Next 100 Innovators. She is a talented artist in addition to her skills in aerospace engineering. Bhedadipika, one of her demonstrative art-tech projects, longed for a year on the International Space Station in 2022 as part of the Moon Gallery initiative. In 2019, she was chosen for a global initiative that organises leadership expeditions to Antarctica for women in science.
She describes her work as an amalgam of art, science, and society and is a graduate of St. Stephen's College in Delhi, Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, and ISAE-Supaéro in Toulouse. In reality, she wishes to investigate how traditional creative and cultural practices from around the world may help long-term space exploration.
She is presently experimenting with a unique enterprise, an art-tech studio, Atelier Arth, after her first entrepreneurial experience as co-founder of the Franco-German space startup, The Exploration Company.
Atelier Arth's logo was inspired by the Assamese letter for the letter "a", অ: according to Priyanka Rajkakati, who brought her Assamese indigenous touch to her founding art-tech business.
She also intends to do outreach initiatives in her native Assam to raise awareness of how space technologies may be applied to enhance daily life. Priyanka adds, "I also want to encourage more children, especially women, to pursue space science."
The studio's pilot project, RiVeins, is an idea for a community-based flood resilience system that integrates local culture narratives with current flood early warning technologies.
Additionally, she will soon be travelling to Antarctica as part of the Homeward Bound women-in-STEMM initiative.
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