November 08, 2026

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Women Who Move India

WHEN BHAIRAVI JANI, Executive Director, SCA Group of Companies, was interviewing a candidate for a CFO role, she expected the conversation to centre around the job. Instead, the candidate told her, "I think you should get mar- ried." Jani's response was immediate: "You are interviewing for the CFO role, not for the job of my husband." This is not an uncommon experience for women in business. But in logistics, where operations and industry relationships have traditionally been dominated by men, a dramatic makeover is in the works. As e-commerce expands, technology reshapes operations, electric vehicles change fleets, and digital platforms make it easier to move goods across the country, women in the industry are becoming difficult to miss.They are not just driving trucks or making deliveries. While some have been running family transport and logistics businesses for decades, others are taking charge of warehouses and supply chains, bringing technology into traditional enterprises and taking on P&L responsibilities.One such woman is Jani, a fourth-generation entrepreneur and elder of the two daughters of Tushar Jani, a pioneer of India's express freight sector who co-founded Blue Dart Express and leads the SCA Group. Jani had the family

Building New-age Businesses

ACROSS INDIA'S NEW-AGE INDUSTRIES, women are taking on leadership roles in businesses that are reshaping how people shop, access services, use technology or secure the country. From eyewear and genomics to quick commerce, drones and defence electronics, they are helping build compa- nies in markets where the challenge is not merely to develop a promising idea but to turn it into a business that can grow and endure.Their journeys are taking different forms. Neha Bansal, co-founder of Lenskart, has built a technology-led eyewear business spanning online and offline; Nandita Sinha, who previously led Myntra, took charge of Swiggy's quick-commerce business Instamart in August 2026; Anuradha Acharya, founder and CEO of Mapmygenome, has brought personal genomics closer to consumers; and Rekha Murthy Rangarajan has built processes and manufacturing capabilities of defence electronics company Data Patterns. Alongside them are Anjali Sardana, founder of home-services platform Pronto; Rithika Mohan, co-founder and chief administrative officer of drone-maker Garuda Aerospace; and Shilpa Choudari, whose career at defence-technology company Zen Technologies evolved from research and marketing support into finance and operations.