‘Gender issues disappear at a certain level’

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: so many ambitious plans I have,” she goes on.

Fact File

* She studied brewing at University of Ballarat, Australia and started her career as trainee brewer in Carlton & United Beverages in 1974.

* She set up Biocon India in 1978 and the initial operation was to extract an enzyme from papaya.

* After Biocon’s IPO in 2004, she became the richest women in the country and Biocon was the only second Indian company to cross the $1-billion mark on the day of listing.