Her office in Okhla, New Delhi, like the lady herself, is matter of fact. No grand art or statement furniture, just a basic, no-frills, functional space. When its owner, Falguni Nayar, walks in, on a nippy November morning, she is in a breezy floral sari, by no particular famous designer, wearing sensible block heels, toting a purse and a jute bag with her lunch.
It has only been days since Nykaa’s stunning IPO (launched on October 28, and oversubscribed 80 times), and the 58-year-old Nayar has been a judged India’s richest self-made woman billionaire (with her company valued at $14 billion, or Rs 1.05 lakh crore, as of November 10, more than the likes of Coal India, Hindalco and Godrej) in the Bloomberg’s Billionaire Index, wresting the crown from Kiran…
