The 30 most powerful women

Food without spice. A garden without flowers. An economy without entrepreneurs. A sky without stars. A bird with one wing… If you are wondering what these colourful figures of speech denote, well, they are some of the reactions from India's most powerful women in business on what a workplace without women would be like.

Life without women would indeed be - as another power woman put it - a dull, grey winter morning. And, along with our seventh listing of India's power businesswomen we also take a look at how corporate India is attempting to bring more women into positions that matter. One way to do that: Give India Inc's women leaders their place in the sun so that they become icons for others to follow.