New Delhi, Aug. 5 -- Lamba socho (thing long-term). This is what senior banker Rajiv Anand offered as his advice to youngsters during a podcast. "Careers, lives are a marathon, not a hundred-meter dash. Therefore, you will get the full benefits of your career, your life in the long term."

Anand, who was deputy managing director at Axis Bank Ltd, was speaking with Sameer Shetty, group executive, digital banking and transformation, Axis Bank, in a podcast episode uploaded to YouTube on 1 August. Three days later, Anand was named as the next managing director and chief executive of IndusInd Bank Ltd, a role that had two more contenders.

In a late-evening filing to the stock exchanges on Monday, the private sector lender that's been in the ...