{"id":4698,"date":"2007-08-31T12:13:35","date_gmt":"2007-08-31T17:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=4698"},"modified":"2007-08-31T09:36:09","modified_gmt":"2007-08-31T14:36:09","slug":"the_most_powerf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/31\/the_most_powerf\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Powerful Desi Women in the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/forbes.com\" >Forbes<\/a>&#8216;s annual &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/2007\/08\/30\/most-powerful-women-biz-07women-cz_em_cs_0830power_land.html?partner=links\" >100 most powerful women<\/a>&#8221; list names Indra Nooyi, Chairman &#038; CEO of PepsiCo the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/2007\/08\/28\/biz-07women_all_slide_5.html?partner=msnbc\" >#5 most powerful woman in the world<\/a> and the most powerful Desi woman.   She edges out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/lists\/2007\/11\/biz-07women_Sonia-Gandhi_W5BY.html\" >#6 &#8211; Sonia Gandhi<\/a>, President of the Congress Party &#8212; thus creating a pretty impressive showing in the top 10.   The final desi on the list, and a previously unknown one to me &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/lists\/2007\/11\/biz-07women_Vidya-Chhabria_PR22.html\" >#97 Vidya Chhabria<\/a> &#8211; hails from the UAE.<\/p>\n\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/1S5D_medium.jpg\" border=0  > <img src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/W5BY_medium.jpg\" border=0  > <img src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/PR22_medium.jpg\" border=0  >   <\/p>\n\n<p>A hearty SM congrats all around.<\/p>\n\n<p>Worth noting &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/2007\/08\/30\/women-executive-power-biz-07women-cz_em_0830womenbehind_slide_9.html?thisSpeed=30000\" >Pratibha Patil<\/a> gets a nod as a &#8220;powerful woman behind the woman&#8221;;  now that will get some SM tongues wagging. <\/p>\n\n<!--more-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes&#8216;s annual &#8220;100 most powerful women&#8221; list names Indra Nooyi, Chairman &#038; CEO of PepsiCo the #5 most powerful woman in the world and the most powerful Desi woman. She edges out #6 &#8211; Sonia Gandhi, President of the Congress &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/31\/the_most_powerf\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4698"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}