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Busy Women

Busy Women

Building Commerce and Culture in Middle India | A Business and Culture Book on Financial Independence and Modern Indian Womanhood

Shinjini Kumar
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Busy Women is an important work to understand contemporary India and what its fabled post-liberalization growth has achieved beyond its bustling metros. Based on extensive travel across thirty cities of Middle India and interviews of over 300 women and also a few men, the book successfully brings together the economic growth story with the poignant humour that runs through narratives of women fielding the two-buck question thrown at them all the time—‘kya zaroorat hai?’
With the curiosity of a woman whose own journey took her from a village to C-suite roles in some of India’s most iconic financial services institutions, Shinjini Kumar writes with flair, wit and deep empathy, bringing to life women who are redefining what ambition and progress feel like. Evocative, entertaining and insightful,
this is a must-read for anyone interested in contemporary India.

Imprint: Penguin Business

Published: Jan/2026

ISBN: 9780143472032

Length : 360 Pages

MRP : ₹599.00

Busy Women

Building Commerce and Culture in Middle India | A Business and Culture Book on Financial Independence and Modern Indian Womanhood

Shinjini Kumar

Busy Women is an important work to understand contemporary India and what its fabled post-liberalization growth has achieved beyond its bustling metros. Based on extensive travel across thirty cities of Middle India and interviews of over 300 women and also a few men, the book successfully brings together the economic growth story with the poignant humour that runs through narratives of women fielding the two-buck question thrown at them all the time—‘kya zaroorat hai?’
With the curiosity of a woman whose own journey took her from a village to C-suite roles in some of India’s most iconic financial services institutions, Shinjini Kumar writes with flair, wit and deep empathy, bringing to life women who are redefining what ambition and progress feel like. Evocative, entertaining and insightful,
this is a must-read for anyone interested in contemporary India.

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Shinjini Kumar

SHINJINI KUMAR has three decades of experience in leadership roles in Indian financial services. From approving foreign direct investments at the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in the 1990s to setting up Paytm Payments Bank as its first CEO to leading Citibank’s consumer businesses as country business manager and co-founding @mysaltapp, a personal finance start-up, she has done it all. In between, there was more central banking experience at the RBI Mumbai, a brief stint handling regulatory matters at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and five years leading banking and capital markets practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers India. She has master’s degrees in English literature from the University of Delhi and in public policy from the University of Texas at Austin, USA. This is her first book.

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