Meena Nambi is an Indian citizen who is known for being the wife of Indian aerospace engineer Nambi Narayanan.
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Wiki/Biography
Meena Nambi was born Meenakshi Ammal. [1]BBC
Physical Appearance
Hair Colour: Salt and Pepper
Eye Colour: Black
Family
Parents & Siblings
Meena’s father’s name was Ramaswamy, who was a businessman. She had twelve siblings, one of her sister’s name is Usha.
Husband & Children
Meena Nambi got married to engineer Nambi Narayanan on 8 September 1967.
Meena Nambi with her husband
They have one son, Sankara Kumar Narayanan, who is a businessman, and one daughter, Geetha Arunan, who is a teacher at Montessori school in Bangalore.
Meena Nambi with her family
Religion
Meena follows Hinduism.
Facts/Trivia
- Meena is also known by the name Meena Narayanan.
- Meena’s husband Nambi was falsely accused of espionage in the ISRO spy case in 1994 and was arrested for fifty days. During this rough phase of Nambi’s life, Meena supported him a lot.
- In an interview, her husband, Nambi talked about the suffering of Meena when he was arrested. He said,
People would come to our house and burn my effigy, call me names, shout slogans… My family suffered a lot. My children were agitated and would fight back. But my wife slipped into depression and stopped talking.”
- According to Nambi, his wife Meena, who was a true devotee, had fixed days to visit temples: Srikanteswaram on Monday, Attukal Devi Temple on Tuesday and Friday, Srivaraham Temple on Thursday and Sri Padmanabha Swami Temple on Saturday. In an interview, he said that she was not allowed to enter the temple when the priest got to know she was Nambi’s wife.
- In another interview, Nambi said that once Meena was asked to get out of an autorickshaw while it was raining outside after the driver got to know she was Nambi’s wife.
- Meena went abroad for the first time in September 1974 when Nambi went to Vernon for the Viking-Vikas joint venture with his ISRO team.
- In 2022, a film titled ‘Rocketry: The Nambi Effect’ starred actress Simran as Meena Nambi.
Simran as Meena Nambi in the film ‘Rocketry The Nambi Effect’
- In the trailer of the film, Meena was shown getting humiliated by her relatives at a wedding, her daughter sitting on the road with cow dung on her face that someone threw at her, and her son getting hit by people because of the accusations on their father.
