Lynn de Souza, Chairman and CEO of Lintas Media Group, is a soft-spoken yet tough professional who has spent three decades in the media industry.

In less than four decades the Indian workplace has been transformed. Male bastions have been breached, glass ceilings have been shattered. Business Today's ninth listing of Most Powerful Women in Indian Business is our annual celebration of this trend. Full Coverage

Vinita Gupta, 43, Group President and CEO, Lupin Pharmaceuticals and Director, Lupin, is based in the United States, but has been in India a lot in the past one year.

Vinita Gupta has almost singlehandedly shown the world how India can succeed in the market for branded drugs in the United States.

For most of its 40 years, Lupin seemed to be just another Indian pharma company trying to make hay in the US generics market. Today, it is a global generics firm to reckon with, taking on giant Teva on the value-creation front.

Be it pushing the envelope at their businesses or throwing themselves into a social venture or getting behind the camera at Bollywood, passion unites these rising daughters in India Inc.

Most Powerful Women in Business 2016