Bina T rewinds the tape one more time. And listens, head held between her palms. She lifts the telephone receiver: It is not pleasant but she has to do it: tell her client that her hunch was right. Her husband has indeed been cheating on her. As a private detective, Bina has been delivering solemn news, stripping masks and breaking hearts for many years now.

Binas choice of career is just one among the many offbeat pursuits women are increasingly gravitating towards. If a career path were like a river; most of us would imagine it to be fairly straight, starting at Point A and ending at Point B, where the river comes home to sea. In other words, a straight-as arrow pursuit, like an MBA, Medicine or Law, where you know how much money you will make and where in the hierarchy you are likely to land. Nice and certain; and well, nice and boring.

Being Miss Marple : Coming back to detection.

Traditionally, it has been a mans domain, perhaps because it is associated with danger and risk. But that is now changing.

Women are not only working as sleuths, but making a success of it, too. That is because a woman has certain advantages: with the soft, warm, harmless air that women have, people find it difficult to confide in them. No wonder, the demand for female detectives is at an all-time high right now.

All you need is to be sure that you are equal to the task of pursuing the truth and gearing up for a life of continuous excitement and danger. If so, join a detective agency right after graduation, and stride forth on your career as a budding Miss Marple.