Business Today -Most Powerful Women in Indian Business-2008

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Executive Summary: Yet another edition of BT’s most powerful women in business, together with the rising stars, the start-up heroines, the micro-finance mavens and even the inheritors. The women listed here come from an amazing variety of academic and family back-grounds and have established themselves in an equally diverse range of industries despite the near-crippling drag of home and hearth. Some were lucky to have been at the right place at the right time; one admits that she is not the sort of mother who packs their child’s tiffin in the morning—and another is “quite unashamed” to say that she eased up on her career to be with her children when they needed her most. And look out for the rising star who takes her two-year-old daughter jetsetting as she shuttles between two cities in the US and her Indian headquarters, and for the lady who came back to India to be near her ailing mother-in-law—but succeeded with yet another start-up