It isn't just her name reminding one of a controversial Bollywood actress that piques one's interest. With a small bindi, white button-up shirt and trousers and a bright burgundy tie, Mamta Kulkarni makes for a rare picture.
Kulkarni, who helms the country's first all-woman (41 of them aged between 23 and 53) railway station, Matunga in Mumbai, says the tie is not about being macho. "It establishes your position as an equal to other male station managers. People take you seriously," she smiles.
At a time when reports point at a slide in female workforce numbers in the country, the Matunga railway station with its unique all-woman workforce has chugged its way into the Limca Book of Records and the Prime Minister's 'Mann Ki Baat'.
Read more of this in a report by Mohua Das published in Times of India...
