Nirmala Sitharaman

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Sitharaman was born into a middle-class Tamil-Brahmin family who spent her childhood in different parts of Tamil Nadu due to her fathers transferable job in the Indian Railways.She is a perfect blend of her fathers disciplinary nature and her mothers love for books.Her favourite subject in her college days was globalisation and its impact on developing countries. Nirmala Sitharaman in younger days.She was married into a Congress oriented family as her mother-in-law was a Congress MLA in Andhra Pradesh, while her father-in-law was a Minister in the Andhra Pradesh Congress Govt. in 1970s.She started her career as an assistant to Economist in the Agricultural Engineers Association in London. She subsequently worked as Senior Manager (Research and Analysis) with Price Waterhouse, London. She also worked in BBC World Service for a while.On her return to India in 1991, she served as Dy. Director of the Centre for Public Policy Studies in Hyderabad.She was an educationist and was also one of the founding members of Pranava, a reputed school in Hyderabad.She is an avid reader and writes the press releases on her own.She is a devotee of Lord Krishna and has a huge collection of his bhajans.She is a sari enthusiast, and has a good collection of vintage silk and cotton Kanjeevarams.