Four most powerful women of 2012

Business Today's ninth listing of Most Powerful Women in Indian Business. We feature the 'Hall of Fame' here to celebrate women who made it to the Most Powerful Women list at least seven times. Last year we featured six such women - HSBC India Country Head Naina Lal Kidwai, Axis Bank CEO Shikha Sharma, Biocon Chairman and Managing Director Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, TAFE Chairman Mallika Srinivasan, Piramal Healthcare Vice Chairperson Swati Piramal and ICICI Bank CEO Chanda Kochhar. With this year's listing, another four make the grade: Apollo Hospitals Managing Director Preetha Reddy, JP Morgan India CEO Kalpana Morparia, Managing Partner, AZB & Partners, Zia Mody, and Hindustan Times Group Chairperson and Editorial Director Shobhana Bhartia.

PREETHA REDDY
Managing Director, Apollo Hospitals
She says many hospitals in India have followed us on accreditation from Joint Commission International, US. "This has been immensely satisfying as a pioneering step taken by Apollo is once again impacting the standards of health care across India."

ZIA MODY
Managing Partner, AZB & Partners
"For me, re-calibrating myself from a counsel into an M&A (mergers and acquisitions) lawyer was also a personal breakthrough. Many of the team members who were with us when we started off together are still with us. I did miss all the excitement of the courtroom in the beginning. Winning a case in court is the biggest adrenalin boost one can get."

KALPANA MORPARIA
CEO, JPMorgan India
"The big turning point in my career was when I joined ICICI Ltd in 1975. That led to the complete transformation of an individual who, until then, had no purpose to life and had to be pushed through school and even college, be it my graduation or my training in law. The ICICI job put me on the path to a corporate career."

SHOBHANA BHARTIA
Chairperson and Editorial Director, Hindustan Times Group
"The media was the one business, of the many my family was involved with, which really fascinated me. From an early age, I would come up with ideas for our newspaper Hindustan Times. I would bounce these off my father, K.K. Birla. He realised my passion. But to convince him that I could lead a newspaper took a lot of hard work."