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Hello, how are you? Welcome to Business Daily Meets with me, Rahult.

I'm here on the BBC World Service. Now, I'm really looking forward to today's program because we're talking to Kieran Mazumda Shaw.

She's one of India's leading business women. She's set up Biocon Limited, that is now, one of the country's largest biotech companies.

It's a multi-billion dollar firm.

She's going to talk to us about how she did that, a little bit about the Indian economy,

and give you a few tips if you want to set up a successful business yourself.

But she started by telling me that actually, when she was a bit

younger, what she really wanted to do was make beer. Well, my late father was the one who

basically persuaded me to take up brewing as a profession. I thought it was a bit of an odd

idea at that time. In fact, I said to my father, I said,

why would you want your daughter to be a brewer?

Is that the right profession for a woman in a country like India?

And he said, why not?

So he said, look, you're so besotted with biotechnology and brewing is biotechnology.

You know, I think you will do very well because this country has a dearth of brewmasters

and why don't you qualify as India's first woman brewmaster?

I thought, okay, that's not a bad idea.

We went off to Australia.

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