Google Doodle celebrates Venu Chitale’s 111th birthday — who was she?

From there, Chitale’s position shifted to a geopolitical one. She assisted George Orwell as a translator-broadcaster for the newly established Indian part of BBC Radio’s Eastern Services within the Forties, however this got here with a myriad of roles and obligations. Chitale grew to become the spokesperson for Indians abroad, which led to the growth of broadcasting of varied Indian languages — together with her mom tongue Marathi in addition to Gujrati, Tamil, and Bengali.