These are not mythical entities, but real ones. Three such accomplished women visited IMT Nagpur recently for a guest lecture.
Sandhya Sekhar was till recently, CEO of a unique Research Park near IIT Chennai. This is an initiative that leads India-based corporates to do research that is likely to transform products, services, processes, even raw materials, or fuels, with India in mind. Needless to say, original research is sparse in India, in most fields, so this is a great idea. It also took a lot of time and energy to sell the concept to all the funding agencies. But the baby was finally born, and is going great guns. Quite incidentally, Sandhya was a classmate at IIMB around 30 years ago.
Devapriya Roy is a recent friend I made after reading her impressive first book, The Vague Woman's Handbook. A great communicator, and a very friendly, unpretentious soul, she has another piece of fiction, The Weight Loss Club (weight loss has to be fiction, you might say). She has also modelled for Keo Karpin earlier, and is pursuing a PhD in natyashastra from JNU.
Ruchira Chaudhary is a consultant based out of Singapore, who does this for the likes of Michelin in the field of Organisational Development and allied areas of H.R. She was introduced by another classmate, a mutual friend.
Hats off to the likes of Sandhya, Ruchira and Devapriya.
Sandhya Sekhar was till recently, CEO of a unique Research Park near IIT Chennai. This is an initiative that leads India-based corporates to do research that is likely to transform products, services, processes, even raw materials, or fuels, with India in mind. Needless to say, original research is sparse in India, in most fields, so this is a great idea. It also took a lot of time and energy to sell the concept to all the funding agencies. But the baby was finally born, and is going great guns. Quite incidentally, Sandhya was a classmate at IIMB around 30 years ago.
Devapriya Roy is a recent friend I made after reading her impressive first book, The Vague Woman's Handbook. A great communicator, and a very friendly, unpretentious soul, she has another piece of fiction, The Weight Loss Club (weight loss has to be fiction, you might say). She has also modelled for Keo Karpin earlier, and is pursuing a PhD in natyashastra from JNU.
Ruchira Chaudhary is a consultant based out of Singapore, who does this for the likes of Michelin in the field of Organisational Development and allied areas of H.R. She was introduced by another classmate, a mutual friend.
Hats off to the likes of Sandhya, Ruchira and Devapriya.
2 comments:
Fascinating work - each one - there is hope yet!
Certainly, there is. I forgot to add a fourth (my memory!). Jaya Jha, who left a corporate job to set up Pothi.com, a Print-on-demand outfit that will publish anything that you write. Which other publishers will ignore, usually. Including poetry. She also visited us this past month to talk about her adventures in entrepreneurship.
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