Shagorika on Why Women Should Demand More From an MBA
LSR graduate and Delhi girl Shagorika Das talk a lot about baggage. Kicking off her professional life at 21 and being the youngest on the team at KPMG had its own baggage. She then switched gears to academia with the Vedica Scholars Programme for Women. The transition to campus after a corporate stint meant she was carrying professional baggage. But if there’s one thing she has learned through her journey, it is to drop the baggage quickly and adapt. And as they say, when you drop your baggage, you gear up to take the flight to your dream destination. In Shagorika’s case it isn’t a job or a step up. She stresses that if she was looking for a new job, she could have done it after KPMG. She didn’t want to invest in a traditional MBA either; otherwise, she would have accepted the admission at a prestigious London B School. She wanted to invest in being a better professional, to become a woman leader in today’s world. She reminds us that only 11% of girls in the country opt for postgraduate programmes. We