Kartikeya sarabhai biography definition

Indian environmentalist

Kartikeya Vikram Sarabhai (born 27 November 1947) is an environmental educator.^[1] He was awarded the Padma Shri, India's fourth-highest civilian award, in 2012.

Biography

Kartikeya Sarabhai was born in Sarabhai family of Ahmedabad, is the grandson of industrialist Ambalal Sarabhai.

His father, Dr. Vikram Sarabhai, is widely regarded as the father of India's space programme.

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Both his mother, Mrinalini Sarabhai, and his sister, Mallika Sarabhai, are Bharatanatyam dancers and social activists.

Sarabhai was educated at Cambridge, UK, where he acquired a Tripos in Natural Sciences. He then went on to do post-graduate work in development communication at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the USA.

He took over as Chairman of Ambalal Sarabhai Enterprises Ltd in 1995, a pharmaceutical company set up by his grandfather Ambalal Sarabhai. At the time the company was financially stressed with a large workforce an