دانلود کتاب Nightingales - 2.0: How Eleven Women Showed Grit, Guts, And Gumption

Nightingales 2.0 comes 18 months after the maiden version.

In Nightingales 2.0: How Eleven Women Showed Grit, Guts, And Gumption, we tell the outstanding stories of women who patrol different areas of interest, contributing richly to brand CA. An athlete, a rally-enthusiast, a chef, a dancer, a music teacher, a social worker, three corporate honchos, an IRS officer, a motivational speaker; you have them all.

Pragnya Mohan is a triathlete who, come 2024, may make India proud. Sportspersons spend hours training for that fleeting second when they stand atop the podium, and the national anthem is played. A generation older is Rima Diddee Dhawan. A single parent, she is a motor rally maverick who raced from St. Petersburg to Tehran via Azerbaijan. Life is not only about books of accounts but also of accounts of journeys worldwide.

Sridevi, better known as Shri Bala, has had the incredible privilege of being the only Indian to tutor Gordon Ramsay in the Super-chef’s ‘Uncharted’ program that was beamed for a global audience. And to imagine the desi lass, without a degree in hotel management, had gatecrashed into that profession only in 2015! Seethalakshmi Subramanian has been no less determined in chasing a dream. A Bharatanatyam teacher, she’s been running a dance school for 20 years even as she juggles it with a proper corporate career. We also have a lady with a stellar academic background, cutting short her fledgling global stint, and return home to teach music. The Vidya Subramanian Academy is 1,500 strong and growing.

The corporate sector has always been a tough ask. We have three managing directors. Sudha Suresh has been there, seen it, and done it. Annapoorna Venkataramanan’s meteoric rise in StanC is motivating, and her only regret is she hasn’t had a diversified profile. But the feisty woman has time on her side to go the full distance. By far, the most telling story is of Vidya Lakshmi, growing from an analyst to managing director in just ten years in the celebrated investment-banking firm Goldman Sachs. She found her calling in HR, and it is interesting that, at 41, she has chosen to take a break.

Rajani Gopal Krishna is an enigma. Losing her eyesight when she was nine, she waddled first on her own and then with JAWS software to emerge as the first visually challenged person to acquire a CA. She now works for the Azim Premji Initiative.
Petchi Thangavel, daughter of a vegetable vendor, lived in a house that never had a lock. That didn’t stop her from seeking education, then CA, and now becoming a popular face in the motivation circuit. The most dramatic is the lady who fought social claustrophobia to be the first woman CA cum IRS. Sarika Jain’s tale has encouraged women of western Odisha to come out of their closets. That she is polio afflicted is a mere side plot.

In the end, we would like to reiterate that these eleven constitute ‘a’ list of outstanding women CA and not ‘the’ list. There are several others living either in India or globally, either in the profession, corporate, governance, or entrepreneurship, who have been outstanding.

We will get to them another day, another time.