HARDIKA SHAH, the 51-year-old Founder and CEO of Kinara Capital—one of the leading fintech lenders in the MSME space—is a self-confessed perfectionist. So much so, that even when it comes to art, something she enjoys doing, she still selected one of the toughest genres. “I started painting when I was a teenager. Now that I look back I think a little bit of that perfectionist in me came from painting. I started by painting portraits which is one of the hardest things to do. I started with pencils and then moved to charcoal. And then to acrylic and oil,” says Shah, who is based in Bengaluru.
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