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The Economic Times
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“Not Australia…”: Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw says India rejected her brewing career because she was a woman, pushing her to build Biocon

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw has built one of India’s biggest biotech companies, Biocon. But a viral post on X, formerly known as Twitter, recently revived the story of her struggle days, and she stepped in to correct it herself.

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The post claimed Australia told her in 1978 that she “could not become a master brewer because she was a woman.” But Kiran Mazumdar Shaw replied with a sharp correction: “Not true. India told me you cannot be hired as a master brewer so I started Biocon.”

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