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Shikha Sharma is the MD and CEO of one of India’s top private banks, Axis Bank.
An alumnus of IIM-A, Shikha Sharma started her career in India’s banking scene, with ICICI, in 1980. Starting off with retail banking, she quickly established herself as a leader. She slowly but steadily worked her way to the top over more than two decades, eventually heading the bank’s life insurance arm, ICICI Prudential.
In 2009, Shikha Sharma took over as head of Axis Bank. With Shikha Sharma at the helm, Axis Bank has been growing steadily. She has often been named as one of India’s most powerful and influential women by Business Today, Indian Express and Forbes.
Shikha Sharma has several awards to her credit, including Businessworld’s Banker Of The Year and CNBC’s Woman Business Leader Of The Year.
Why we find her inspiring:
– For being at the helm of India’s third largest private bank
– For successfully juggling a high profile career with motherhood
– For her simplicity despite her position and authority
*Photo source: Axis Bank Foundation.
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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