Startling insights from Kiran Mazumdar Shaw on India’s economy, health & media

Startling insights from Kiran Mazumdar Shaw on India’s economy, health & media

1 August 2020

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Why should big industry need bailouts? Why has Covid not changed India’s attitude to inequality? What is eroding the idea of India?

Passionate. Startling. Wide-ranging.

Kiran Mazumdar Shaw — Biocon Chairperson and India’s first self-made woman billionaire — spells out what’s going wrong in the economy, the fight against Covid, the relief stimuli. How health can become the next sunrise sector. How things can be fixed for the better. And how the pandemic has changed her personally.

“There is something destroying India’s democracy,” she says, “and it’s not the government.” So what is?