The Seafaring Sultana

When I started my career part-time, (for fun and some pocket-money) by selling Personal loans for Citibank and GE Money (Countrywide in 2001- when Personal loans were just picking up in India), little did I know that I will be working on my own venture to create a niche market for travel loans a few years down the line! Coming from a background of technocrats and bureaucrats, the ‘safer’ career options were always the go-to expected and imbibed by my family. When I chose a career, very different from the lineage, (not the typical doctor, engineer or that of civil services) it didn’t just set me up for proving myself to the outside world, but to my skeptical family members too. Through my journey at organisations like Kotak Mahindra Bank, PNB MetLife and IndiGo, I faced many challenges as a woman! But they were nothing as compared to being a Womanpreneur! Just when...