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At 7:45 every morning, banker Rajesh Sharma (name changed) leaves his home in a Mumbai suburb while his children are still at breakfast. His branch is in the heart of the city. There are customers to attend to, targets to review, loans to follow up on, suspicious transactions to examine, and compliance reports to submit. The cash in the vault must also tally before the branch can close.
He has fixed working hours on paper, but the business of banking rarely follows the clock. By the time Sharma returns home, dinner is cold and his younger child is fast asleep.
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First Published: Sep 29 2026 | 5:33 PM IST