Mahasweta Chakraborty

Mahasweta Chakraborty is an Indian aircraft pilot from New Town, Kolkata. During the COVID-19 pandemic in India, she assisted in the Vande Bharat Mission that transported oxygen concentrators from China and Hong Kong to several Indian cities. During the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, she helped evacuate around 800 Indian students from the borders of Poland and Hungary as part of Operation Ganga.

Early life and education Mahasweta Chakraborty was born in 1998, the only child of Tanuja Chakraborty, president of West Bengal's women's wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Having listened to stories of her parents growing up in Ashoknagar in North 24 Parganas, where there are World War II hangars, she aspired to becoming a pilot. She attended Auxilium Convent School and later graduated from the Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Uran Akademi to become an aircraft pilot.

Career Chakraborty made her first flight at the age of 17.