Forbes India names 25 women as trailblazers in India

New Delhi March 5 (IANS) Ahead of International Women s Day on March 8 Forbes India has released a its "W-Power Trailblazers" issue this weekend featuring 25 women stars on the ascendency in business.

The 25 women stars included names like Chiki Sarkar publisher Juggernaut Books Adhuna Bhabani founder-director Bblunt Anupriya Acharya CEO (India) Publicis Media Kavitha Sairam co-founder FIB-SOL Life Technologies Dina Wadia and Shivpriya Nanda joint managing partners J Sagar Associates among others.

"We need to specify that this is not a ranking but a qualitative selection -- a grouping of ground breakers game-changers and innovators working across diverse sectors such as technology law banking insurance media biotech and the startup sector " Forbes India said in a statement.

"Mandated quotas smack of tokenism and we have as many women who favour reservations as those who would like merit to be the decider " said Brian Carvalho Editor of Forbes India referring to the lack of women on company boards.

"With the overwhelming response that we received for the first edition of W-Power last year a second edition was imminent. This issue is unique because of the methodology used in selection of the leaders. We believe that this list cannot be ranked hence we adopt a qualitative approach " said Joy Chakraborthy CEO-Forbes India and President-Revenue Network18.

The final list of 25 was identified based on jury votes.

--IANS
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