it is -- i grew up in a small town in the southwest of india called kolhapur. and the world of luxury, refinement, sophistication was very far away from where i grew up. it was a small town like any other. most of my memories of me running barefoot in the town, or having my little bike and riding around. women being ambitious was not the norm. in fact, i remember my mother constantly telling me, "who will marry you, you are so ambitious," and "do you really know what you're going to do with your life?" and so, very limited access to role models, to opportunities. i did engineering after sort of convincing everybody in my family that engineering was good for girls, which was great. it was electronics and telecommunications. and i quite enjoyed, again, being in the minority, but learning a lot more about the world of technology, which we all are now part of. then did my management studies, worked all over the country as part of unilever. i worked -- i had an all-around experience, a hands-on experience, worked in the shop floor, worked in frontline sales, rode th