As the cliché goes, whatever you say about India, the opposite may also be true. And so it seems when it comes to women and their rise to the top. Women’s empowerment is an agenda that’s barely begun to be addressed in this country. However, we also have the opposite phenomenon of electing strong women to positions of power—from Indira Gandhi to Sonia Gandhi to state-level politicians such as Mayawati, J Jayalalithaa and Mamata Banerjee—to name just a few.
(This story appears in the 28 June, 2013 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)