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‘Kalpana Chawla was a heroine’. How did a journalist support his statement?
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Solution
Kalpana was a heroine. She was born in the small town of Karnal. But she was a genius. She became an astronaut. She had an encyclopaedic knowledge of so many subjects. She made a great achievement.
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