unitha was a pilot of an aircraft during gulf war, she was "selected" to go to the space and she went there. Of course there must be some thing in her that made her to get selected but it is not, per se, her achievement. People should realize that there are bigger achievers Indians or otherwise who have genuinely done something which no other human being could do before. For example, take Manindra agarwal of IIT Kanpur - he solved a problem that was not solved by any human being for centureis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manindra_Agrawal and there are several other big professors of Indians who have achieved really big results...take Vardhana of New York University, Rajeev Motwani of stanford, the list is endless....they were not "selected" to these problems, they have done it out of pure talent and sheer brilliance. How much recognition do they get in INdia? How many people even know about them? If an Indian dog is selected to go to space, I guess we will adulate that dog also and call it a role model? ( No bad meaning intended but a dog was really sent to space by russians first before sending human beings )
