Scientist Nigar Shaji, the project director of India's first space-based mission deployed to study the Sun Aditya-L1, is the daughter of a farmer from Tamil Nadu's Sengottai town. She did engineering in Electronics and Communications from Tirunelveli government engineering college and joined ISRO in 1987. "This is like a dream come true," Shaji said on the successful launch of Aditya-L1.