I V \-J L l\l N the past Lata Mangeshkar^ Sheila Dixit Gupte, Barklia Dutt, Aishwarya Rai and winners. This year FLO wishes tt) felicitate WOMANHOOD in their respective areas of expertise. Meenakshi Madhvani Advertising With over 26 years of experience in Advertising, Marketing and Media, Chanda Kochar Meenakshi MadhWani is considered to Deputy Managing be an expert on the Indian Media Industry. She started her career in 1980 ( ctor, ICICI with Lintas and moved to Lintas Media as Head of Buying. She subsequently set Banking up a Sales and Marketing Company in She is certainly unique, India, UK and Middle East and left as just like the others who their Managing Director in early 1997. were celebrated at the cere She then set up Carat India, the First mony. She has raised the Indian Media specialist and grew the business to a turnover of Rs. bar for international bank 3.5.Billion. She was appointed to the Asia Pacific Board as.Regional Rohini Nilekani ing in the country through Director 2000 and set up Carat Pakistan in that year as well. In her achievements as the October 2003 she launched Spatial Access Solutions, India’s first Chairman of Argyam and Akshara Deputy Managing Director Media Audit & Consulting firm. Spatial Access has a client base Foundation, Bangalore. of ICICI. She is the one who across the country in Mumbai, Pune, Delhi, Ahmedabad, gave you your car, your Bangalore, Kolkotta and Chennai; has 3* alliances with Social Services home and looked after your UK headquartered global media audit & consulting firms Billetts* For so many out there - she is that light at daughter's marriage FLE & EMM. the end of the tunnel. The inequalities ip the through personal loans. All Her impressive list of achievements led to a selection by world around her stir up deep concerns in of these made ICICI soar as Ad Age Global as one of 17 women worldwide who would be the her heart. She is ever tpady to pick up cudg the polestar on the banking face of the changing advertising industry in the year 2009. She was els on behalf of the underdog. From horizon of India. It's not for the first Indian judge on the Media Lions Jury in Cannes and in inequitable water access and unavailability nothing that Fortune 2003 she was selected as one of 25 most powerful women in of quality education, from public health to Magazine calls her the 37th Business by India Today. urban poverty and rural financial services, Most Powerful Woman in She also writes several columns, is considered to be the you name it and Rohini is involved neck- Business today. A true-blue Independent expert on Indian Media and is an advisor to Global deep in that area. That's why the name wizard at wielding the nitty- Financial Institutions. She also co-founded the website indiandoc- Rohini Nilekani has become a synonym for gritty of banking and busi torsguide.com India's first internet site created for Doctors with an hope to a vast multitude of the deprived, ly you cannot but aim to build an online community and promote continuing med especially underprivileged children, whose a>, mid her achievements. ical education among Family Physicians across the country. education has become a mission for her.
to be taken seriously in the marketing of a movie. Saira Banu Not only was Saira particular about her costumes she was far ahead of her times when it came to make-up, Lifetime Achievement Award hairstyles, props for being photographed and even the Born to an impeccable lineage with the beautiful contact lenses in different colours, which in those days she Naseem Banu as her mother, Saira Banu's road to super were a rarity. stardom was destined; Though she was a bright student, An accomplished kathak dancer and sitar player, she the desire to follow her mother's footstep was strong' and has acted- in over 60 movies and worked with the biggest in'1962, a star was born. stars of that era before she finally married and settled into to "Junglee", her maiden film became a milestone for blissful matrimony with her ultimate leading man, Dilip Hindi cinema in many ways. It was the first successful Kumar. Saira runs Sharp Focus, her production House for Eastman Colour Film which started the trend for actresses films and serials. www.rohininilekani.org 8 3 - 9 *