India, May 28 -- Bengaluru-based billionaire Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw decided to forgo luxury cars and tried travelling in the metro on Tuesday. The founder of Biocon Limited took the Namma Metro purple line to beat the city's infamous traffic and was left surprised by her experience.

In a post shared on the social media platform X, Shaw said that travelling in the metro was a quick way to avoid traffic and thanked the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation for a "great ride".

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw was accompanied by her friend Jennifer Erich, whom she described as the "Iron Lady at Exxon Mobil". According to Erich's LinkedIn profile, she is a Geoscience Manager at the American oil and gas company's Bengaluru Technology Centre.

"Took the purple lin...