India, Nov. 24 -- She spoke about her own experience as an entrepreneur and mother-in that order. Upasana Kamineni Konidela was addressing a group of students at IIT, Hyderabad and happened to ask how many in the audience wanted to get married. More men raised their hands than women. "The women seemed far more career-focused!!!" she remarked on X (triple exclamation marks are hers not mine).

No surprises here but somewhere along the discussion, the grand-daughter of Apollo chairman-founder Prathap C Reddy veered into the option women have of freezing their eggs to delay having children while they focused on their careers. Freezing, she said, gives women the freedom to choose when to marry, when to have kids and to prioritise careers and ...