My mother Rukmani Ramani rose to the level of a General Manager in a Nationalized Bank way back when women hardly went out to work. She set very high standards for me and gave me an upbringing of healthy doses of Indian culture, that included Chinmaya Mission teachings, south Indian traditional rituals, and simultaneously inculcated the love of foreign languages in me. The love of languages and constant learning was inculcated by my father. How important positive parenting is! Today I am grateful to realize how lucky I was that they filled me with so much positivity!