Complex sentence: Born in a Bengali family in Waltair (now Visakhapatnam), Devika Rani was the great-grandniece of the Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore and her father, Col. M. N. Chaudhuri, was the first Indian Surgeon-General of Madras.
Split into simpler sentences: Born in a Bengali family in Waltair (now Visakhapatnam), Rani was the great-grandniece of the Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore. Her father, Col. M. N. Chaudhuri, was the first Indian Surgeon-General of Madras.