Bula Choudhury

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Bula Choudhury is a former national women's swimming champion of India. She is the first woman to cross seven seas. She twice swam the English Channel first in 1989 and again in 1999. She was awarded the Arjuna Award in 1990. She is now is planning to establish a swimming academy in Kolkatta. She is a Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) legislator from Nandanpur in West Midnapore district in West Bengal. She was also awarded Padma Shri award.