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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Gira Sarabhai, who passed away recently, belongs to which profession?
A
Architecture
B
Painter
C
Singer
D
Player
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Ms. Sarabhai’s older brother Vikram was a physicist and astronomer who founded India’s space program. Gira and her siblings were home-schooled, but while several of them attended university, Gira had no formal education.

Detailed explanation-2: -Gautam Sarabhai and his sister Gira played a major role in the establishment and early years of NID. Gautam Sarabhai sidestepped the accepted wisdom and conventional method of education and revived the philosophy of the Bauhaus design movement which was learning by doing.

Detailed explanation-3: -Rauschenberg and Asha Sarabhai working on Unions series (1975), Sarabhai Retreat, Ahmedabad, India, 1975. Wife and husband Asha and Suhrid Sarabhai established their roles in Indian textile manufacturing and design with artistic conviction and ethical consciousness.

Detailed explanation-4: -Sarabhai passed away on December 30, 1971, at the age of 52. He died in a hotel room in Kerala after witnessing the launch of a Russian rocket and laying the foundation stone of the Thumba railway station earlier the same day.

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