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{{Infobox person
| name = Damayanti Tambay
| image = Damayanti_Wedding_Image.jpg
| alt = 
| caption = Wedding Photograph of Damayanti Tambay and [[Vijay Vasant Tambay]]
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| birth_date = 
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| nationality = [[India]]n
| other_names =
| occupation = [[Badminton|Former Badminton Player]]
| years_active =
| known_for = [[Vijay Vasant Tambay|Wife of Vijay Vasant Tambay]] <br> [[Badminton|Former Badminton Player]]
| spouse = [[Vijay Vasant Tambay]]
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'''Damayanti Tambay''' is a former badminton player and the wife of [[Vijay Vasant Tambay|Flt lt V. V. Tambay]] (one of [[the missing 54]] Indian defence personnel from the [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1971|1971 Indo-Pak war]] who are believed to be in Pakistani custody).<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|date=2020-04-03|title=Past Masters of Indian Badminton: Damayanti Tambay's endless wait and a career curtailed by love - Sports News , Firstpost|url=https://www.firstpost.com/sports/past-masters-of-indian-badminton-damayanti-tambays-endless-wait-and-a-career-curtailed-by-love-8223851.html|access-date=2021-04-14|website=Firstpost}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/there-is-nothing-we-havent-tried-to-get-him-back-damayanti-tambay/articleshow/68305721.cms?fbclid=IwAR2A-QLaZaKTaC3A0_0XAVUuOI3ROdl28jjlBmJqDxF3g8t69eyFpTIOgs4 | title=50 years on, a wife still waits for her fighter pilot husband | publisher=[[The Times of India]] | work=Avijit Ghosh | date=7 December 2021 | accessdate=8 December 2021}}</ref>

== Biography ==
During the [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1971|1971 Indo-Pak war]], on 5 December 1971, Tambay's husband [[Vijay Vasant Tambay]], Flight Lieutenant of [[Indian Army]] was captured as the enemy by Pakistan Army. Consequently, Tambay had taken several initiatives to bring back her husband along with the other 46 war prisoners, but was not successful and the official standpoint of Indian Army was that all the missing personnel died. By 1971, Damayanti Tambay had won three consecutive National women's singles. But she announced her retirement in 1971, at the age of 23 after her husband got captured in the [[The missing 54]] incident of [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1971|1971 Indo-Pak war]] taking the vow that she would not resume her career in Badminton unless she gets her husband back or receives the confirmed news that her husband was dead.<ref name=":1" />

She later became a leading member of the ''[[Missing defence personnel association]]''.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|title=47 years on, a wife still waits for her fighter pilot husband|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/there-is-nothing-we-havent-tried-to-get-him-back-damayanti-tambay/articleshow/68305721.cms}}</ref> She is currently serving as the deputy director of physical education at [[Jawaharlal Nehru University]].<ref name="TT">{{cite web
| author =
| publisher = The Telegraph, Calcutta
| url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1040418/asp/look/story_3126639.asp
| title= Long road to nowhere
| access-date=2008-06-12
}}</ref><ref name="DH">{{cite web
|publisher=The Deccan Herald
|url=http://www.deccanherald.com/CONTENT/Mar302008/finearts2008032960094.asp
|title=On the border of hope
|access-date=2008-06-12
|url-status=dead
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080409115133/http://www.deccanherald.com/Content/Mar302008/finearts2008032960094.asp
|archive-date=9 April 2008
|df=dmy
}}</ref><ref name="TTC">{{cite web
| author =
| publisher = The Tribune Chandigarh
| url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2006/20061217/spectrum/main1.htm
| title= War of Memory
| access-date=2008-06-12
}}</ref><ref name="BBC">{{cite web
| author =
| work = BBC
| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/7283324.stm
| title= India's families still hoping for answers
| access-date=2008-06-12
| date=2008-03-08}}</ref>

==In popular Culture==

===Film===
A short film on 1971 Indo-Pak War featuring Damayanti Tambay was directed by [[Akanksha Damini Joshi]]. The short film directed by Joshi in 2005 for Janmat voices the concern and hope of Damayanti Tambay who has awaited the return of her husband for nearly five decades.<ref>{{cite web|title=Flight Lieutenant Vijay Vasant Tambay|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgEKmZ7lXJk |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/HgEKmZ7lXJk |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|publisher=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=1971 INDO-PAK WAR, POW|url=https://earthwitnessfilm.wordpress.com/listening-in/1971-pows/|publisher=Earth Witness}}</ref>

== Notes ==

* Koul, M. G. (. P. (2014). The Silence Speaks. United Kingdom: Partridge Publishing India.
* Chatterji, S. A. (2015). Filming Reality: The Independent Documentary Movement in India. India: SAGE Publications.

==References==
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[[Category:Indian female badminton players]]
[[Category:Indian national badminton champions]]
[[Category:Indian women activists]]
[[Category:Jawaharlal Nehru University faculty]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:1948 births]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian women]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian people]]
[[Category:Sportswomen from Delhi]]
[[Category:Activists from Delhi]]
[[Category:Indian human rights activists]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Arjuna Award]]

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