As we walk towards the shoot location at a Mumbai five star, Kiran Mazumdar Shaw greets every staff member with an endearing smile, lightening up faces around.
Dressed in a raw silk shirt-jacket, fringe pants, and a silk scarf, she is visibly pepped, and tells us it’s high time women in science get prominence in the media. “It’s important,” she says, with an admirable earnestness. Surprisingly, the entrepreneur claims to have never shot for a cover like this. “This is a long shoot, I will follow instructions,” she quips, getting ready to face the camera.
Shaw, 66, is the chairperson and managing director of Biocon Limited, a biotechnology company she kick-started in a garage in Bangalore in 1978. “I take pride in terming Biocon the first tech start-up in the country,” she beams. Her contribution to biotechnology earned her the Padma Shri (1989) and the Padma Bhushan (2005). In 2010, Shaw was named among TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world. In 2014, she was listed as the 92nd most powerful woman in the world by Forbes. In 2015, she shot to the 85th position. She featured on the list yet again in 2016 and 2017 at the 77th and 71st positions respectively. With credentials such as this, evidently, she has been there, done that, but “doesn’t believe in the word ‘retiring’.”
You made it big at a time when it wasn’t common to see a woman take on business. What gave you the strength to make a move in that direction?
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هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة October 24, 2019 من Femina.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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