FACING SUCCESS

DR GEETIKA SRIVASTAVA, dermatologist and founder of Influennz Clinic, tells Ravina M Sachdev how her venture born out of necessity became her passion

- Ravina M Sachdev

While Geetika Srivastava's mother dreamed of her daughter becoming an IAS officer, destiny had other plans for her. "I come from a typical middle-class Indian family," Dr Geetika reveals. "In my family, you either become an engineer, a doctor, or an IAS officer." Since she wasn't particularly interested in mathematics, she decided to opt for biology and become a doctor.

It was only when she secured an all-India rank of 129 and was studying in the prestigious Lady Hardinge Medical College MBBS programme that she found her calling, "The turning point came during a conversation in my hostel mess when a friend spoke about the perks of being a dermatologist; I was captivated and I knew that was what I wanted to do," she recalls.