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Chetna Gala Sinha: The feminist banker who will co-chair Davos meet
From the firebrand socialism of Jayaprakash Narayan to a feminist volunteer from the Forum Against Oppression of Women to setting up the country’s first bank for and by rural women in Maharashtra, Chetna Gala Sinha has always been drawn toward the underprivileged.
Starting next week, she plans to take their muffled voices to arguably the biggest global assembly she has ever been to – the annual week-long jamboree in the Swiss Alps for the global jet set, known popularly as the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos.