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However, a recent letter from the ICICI Bank MD and CEO to her daughter bore testimony to how Chanda lays just as much emphasis on the love, family and relaxation. In her poignant letter, Kochchar talks about growing up without her father who died when she was only 13 and her mother became a working single parent. 

She relates the lessons she learnt as a child to the time she became a working mother herself to her children, Aarti and Arjun. “If you had complained and whined about my extended absence from home, I would never have had the heart to make a career for myself. I am blessed with a great and supportive family and I really hope you too will be as fortunate when you set out on your own,” she writes in the letter, which is full of heartfelt advice for her daughter and anecdotes from personal and professional life. 

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