1. Why do we still not find young people, especially women taking up pure sciences as a career optio
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She rides high on her biotech company's phenomenal success. What makes the Queen B tick? Her story of starting a company in the garage is similar to those of international IT majors such as HP and Apple. She was a 25-year-old start-up entrepreneur, a woman at that, with no business experience, no collateral security to offer and worse still, a high risk, unknown business based on biotechnology! It took her three months to obtain a Rs 5-lakh credit line in 1979 which saw her knock on the doors of five banks before one brave banker decided to fund her. Kiran Mazumdar Shaw on success, business, women as scientists and more, in an interview to Teresa Rehman