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Shyamala is not only a valuable employee of Standard Chartered Bank in India but she is also a gifted athlete who travelled the world representing India as a weight lifter. Highlights of her sporting history included wining the silver medal in power lifting, with a lift of 575kg, at the Asian Games in 1992 as well as winning the Indian National Power Lifting Championship 5 years in a row, from 1989 - 1993.

'Shyamala Borkar was excited about the Bank choosing international as a core value because she understood what international meant - at least what it meant to her. It had changed her life. It made it richer and fuller and more rewarding than she had ever imagined.

'As an athlete, competing in the rarefied world of women's weight lifting, she saw a world no one else in her family had ever experienced. It was a beautiful world full of friendly people from all parts of the world. When she returned home from a competition, she would put the medals out on the table and tell her mother stories about the events and how fierce her competitors had been. It was the most exciting time of her life.