Very cautiously, Chanda Kochhar steps back into limelight

Kochhar was recruited in 1984 as a management trainee and rose to become its MD and CEO in 2009.

In her Netflix documentary, ‘Martha’, the American billionaire and tastemaker Martha Stewart says, “I have two mottos: Learn something new every day, and that when you’re through with change, you’re through. Move on.” Their personal stories may be different but Stewart and Chanda Kochhar have shared a similar arc of heroic rise and a steep fall. Both have been nationally known figures who faced inglorious exits from their respective companies over allegations of fiduciary impropriety, followed by jail stints.

Chanda Kochhar (Anshuman Poyrekar/HT Photo)

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