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westland ltd
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First published in India by westland ltd 2013

Copyright Rashmi Bansal 2013

All rights reserved

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ISBN: 978-93-82618-42-3

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JAM Venture Publishing Pvt Ltd.

Cover Design by Amrit Vatsa

Typesetting by Ram Das Lal

Printed at Thomson Press (I) Ltd.

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any responsibility for any mistake that may have crept in inadvertently.
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DEDICATED TO

My mother-in-law, Santosh Bansal.
For her unconditional love and support.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

To all the women who have loved me, nurtured me, inspired and encouraged me.

Thank you, from the bottom of my heart.

My mother, Manorama Agrawal, for loving me through all my moods, my tantrums, my faults and failures.

My chachi, Pratima Garg I think of you as my chhoti ma .

My buaji, Asha Goyal, for her positive spirit. You are an inspiration.

Edith Monteroso my teacher at Allendale elementary school (Pasadena, California). In your classroom, this writer was born.

Miss Maria, French teacher at St Josephs High School, Colaba. You inspired me to be more and do more.

My English professor at Sophia College, Miss Colaco. (Wish I had majored in Literature not Eco an eternal regret!)

Professor Indira Parikh at IIM Ahmedabad, you were warm, affectionate and yet so good at your job.

Kamini Banga, for planting in my head the seed that I must write a book.

Rama Bijapurkar, for being a role model I love you and admire your work.

My first boss, Chandni Sahgal, for her tough love and bloody high standards.

Ellaeenah Daruwala, for healing my heart and opening my eyes to a new world.

My childhood friends, Shefali Srivastava and Vandana Rao. You are the sisters I never had.

Piyul Mukherjee and Nayantara Chakravarthi friends, confidantes and lets-have-fun-together pals.

My soul sister, Aneeta Arora. We are always connected, no matter where we are.

Madhuri Y and Shalini Lal, for shared yesterdays and many shared tomorrows.

Supreeta Arya, because we may fight but always make up.

My daughter, Nivedita. You are a beautiful young woman who makes me proud.

My housekeeper, Lata without whom I would be lost.

And finally, Mrs Naipaul. Though you are far away, you are still with me and within me. Guiding me, loving me, holding my hand.

To all the people who made this book possible.

As always, my deep gratitude to Sunil Handa, friend, teacher, mentor and guide.

To the teachers of Eklavya school in particular, Principal Rajal maam and Principal Nandini maam for reading the chapters and sharing their feedback.

Ravish Kumar, for being such a help and support in every way.

Pankaj Bhargava, for the generous use of his office, which gives me the peace to write.

Zankhana Kaur (Zee) at TIE Stree Shakti for her enthusiasm and networking support.

Shweta Gadkari Joshi who did the majority of transcriptions for this book (and did them so well!). Also John BK, Nikhil Sahasrabudhe, Suvadro Chakraborty, Vikash Bakrewal and Aruna Karthikeyan for their excellent work in the same area.

Nupur Maskara for initial proofreading. Astha Gupta and Akanksha Thakore for vetting some chapters.

Aradhana Bisht at Westland for editing and producing the book as I wanted it. I know, I am a taskmaster

Amrit Vatsa for yet another fabulous cover concept.

Durgesh at Core House for DTP work on the cover. Gunjan Ahlawat and team at Westland for final design and layout.

Paul Kumar and Gautam Padmanabhan at Westland for being easy and fun to work with.

Satish, Rajaram and the rest of the sales team, for reaching my books far and wide.

To all my readers, even the ones who complain I dont write in English (in this book I have provided translation. Wherever I think you will miss out).

And, of course, to all the amazing women in this book.

I think of you as friends now.

Climb every mountain,
Ford every stream,
Follow every rainbow,
Till you find your dream.

A dream that will need
All the love you can give,
Every day of your life
For as long as you live.

from The Sound of Music

(Rodgers & Hammerstein)

The class of 1993 at IIM Ahmedabad was a special one. There were 30 female students in the batch, and I was one of them.

There was strength in numbers and we were bolder and brasher than our seniors (a batch of 15). We did not hesitate to empty buckets of water on boys making their way past our hostel (a campus tradition known as dunking).

When the boys put up their joos magazine on the mess noticeboard with spicy (imaginary) details of girl-boy romances, we created our own magazine. Which took their pants down.

In 1993, when we graduated, I certainly felt we are equal. Man or woman, we carry the same diploma. We are equally capable of making it in the world.

I was terribly wrong.

Women are equally capable. But, the circumstances must allow.

For a woman is like a delicate flower and needs just the right weather, to bloom and come into her own.

She wilts under the heat of disapproval.

She freezes in the ice of resentment.

A woman will simply sacrifice herself, and her ambition, if the cost is too high.

And the family will approve of that for at the heart of our modern heads lies the age-old belief: a womans place is at his side.

The revolution is coming, but there will be no bloodshed.

Because women will do it their way.

We shall overcome them with our passion for excellence. We shall conquer them with child-like faith. We will show them new ways of thinking and doing things.

Which make the world a stronger yet gentler place.

So lock your boardrooms and sit in your ivory towers. The world of greed and scarcity, the world of yesterday.

Tomorrow holds the fragrance of feminine values. Of courage, of transparency, of grace.

This is that moment in history, when women must seize the day.

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