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The book has beautifully intertwined Shaw’s life with the birth and evolution of Biocon. “Auchincloss finally pried Kiran loose from her Scottish employer by promising her that if she did not enjoy the work after a year, he would make sure she got the same job, or some other in the brewing industry in the UK.” And rest is history. After retiring as the chief brewmaster at United Breweries in Bengaluru, Rasendra Mazumdar had started a malting company in Baroda. When she got the business proposal she was in Baroda helping her father Rasendra Mazumdar wind up his business. Three years earlier, she had returned from Australia with a degree in brewing which did not get her a job she figured that being a woman brewmaster was not acceptable in India. “After a few weeks of experimentation with some enzymes at Barmalt Malting in Gurgaon she would join Moray Firth Maltings in Scotland. Les Auchincloss, the serial entrepreneur, wanted to meet her to give her a business proposal.

The journey started in March 1978 when Shaw, who was in Baroda, was leaving for Delhi to fly to Scotland to begin work at a malting company. By interacting with the funding and regulatory agencies and the political system, she gave a face to the industry.” It narrates how, over a period of time, Shaw became a brand ambassador: “Not just of a flegling industry but of innovation-led business in general. The book chronicles Biocon’s 37-year long journey like a story. But Shaw started with technology, and added science at the back-end, and then kept adding to it, says author Seema Singh, a journalist for over two decades, specializing on science and technology-related writings. Biotech companies have traditionally started with science as the basis.

Her’s is a start-up seeded nearly four decades ago in the field of life sciences, and not information or communication technology.Īs “Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw & the Story of Indian Biotech” seeks to portray, she was also not an engineer and did not come from a business family. She has managed to break the kind of myths that abound in the Indian scenario.

Shaw, who received Padma Shri in 1989, embarked on the start-up journey from her garage 37 years ago. For Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, chairperson and managing director of Biocon, is also a trained brewmaster. The fact that she will be different from her peers was also evident rather early.

Start-ups may have become a familiar term in India in the past decade, but this lady dared to delve into such a mission - a domain dominated by men even today - more than three decades ago.