London, United Kingdom:

The much-awaited IIW “She Inspires Awards 2022” drew wide scale interest from nominations coming from all parts of the world this year. The purpose was to acknowledge ordinary women who are doing so much but hardly recognised. It could be any woman in the family sacrificing the was a huge success. More than 150 nominations went under a grueling process of two rounds.

“Naari” is referred as “Shakti (Strength)”, and SHE INSPIRES award is to celebrate that Strength exhibited by Women in different roles, something that Inspires others to go a Step further, to venture into the Uncharted, and thereby bringing out the best in their role. We wish to acknowledge those who have worked behind the Limelight to bring a Big Change silently, the women who have transformed Lives and Impacted those around her. It is an award to acknowledge the ordinary women who have done extraordinary work all this without any registration fees and influence. That is what made this IIW She Inspires very different and much sought for… It was 6 months of arduous task, following up for Judges, preliminary round then final with 100 of emailing and collating nominations.

Hon’ble MP Padmashree Bob Blackman hosted the event in the sanctity of the mother of all parliaments, the Portcullis House, the new building of the Parliament, Westminister United Kingdom.The volunteers included Shital Kamdar, Bogumila Bubiak, Seema Khandelwal, Ship Gomes, Shikha Garg, Tejal Shah, SivaPriya Thunagarah Archana Khadye , Hetvi Gandhi, Shreya Rahul, DrSanya Sharma, Sarika Handa , Ayesha Shamim, Hema Kariyappa , Shruti Akash Bajpai, Nina Darmeci. The event was hosted by Sonal Sher, Bhanu Sistla.

The event also witnessed the launch of Dr Priya Virmani’s Book, ‘The Smallest Stories to Extraordinary’.

The names of all the Proud Winners are as follows:

DD SPECIAL SHE INSPIRES AWARDEES(DHARMA DUBEY SPECIAL SHE INSPIRES AWARDS)
FOR BEING A SPIRITED FIGHTER –
1. Ms Raga Olga D’silva
2. Ms Kamala Seth
3. Padmashree Kalpana Saroj
4. Ms Ritika Jaiswal
5. Ms Geeta Shah
6. Ms Chinu Kishore
7. Kalpana Doshi
8. Tarla Mashru
9. Abhnash Bains

BEST ENTREPRENEUR
10. Ms Shweta Shalini
11. Ms Rama Chande

COMMUNITY SPIRIT
12. Ms Bhawna Arora
13. Manju Kumari Sinha for Divyang (Differently abledCommunity)
14. Ms Vaishali Shah
15. Jai Verma
16. Meeta Joshi

PROMISING PROFESSIONAL
17. Dr Sarala Ravindran
18. Dr Pushpinder Chowdhary MBE
19. Adv Seema Samridhi
20. Dr Nirmala Murthy

BRIGHT ARTIST
21. Darshini Joshi

WINNERS IIW SHE INSPIRES AWARDS 2022

1. Bright Artist (Art, Music, Drama, Media, Creative, age 3-20)
2. Gia soni
3. Aditi Gollapudi
4. Harini Ganesan

Bright Artist (Art, Music, Drama, Media, Creative, age 21-40)
5. Vinothini.G Joint Winners
6. Neha Patel Joint Winners
7. Sneha Ramu Runners up
8. Manorma Joisi Runners up

Bright Artist (Art, Music, Drama, Media, Creative, age 40+)
9. Dr Apurna Jegannathen 1st
10. Swathi Nahar 2nd
11. Nithya Sowmy 2nd

Community Spirit (Welfare or Social Worker, Level 1 Age – 16 to 35 )
12. Ishwari Kotecha 1st
13. Merlin Dalmeida 2nd

Community Spirit – ( Welfare or Social Worker, Level 2 Age- 35 plus )
14. Rachana Pradeep Ingle 1st
15. Vijita Agarwal Runners up
16. Divya Khurana Runners up
17. Kritilata Ram Runners up
18. HimaValli Chalikonda – 2nd Runners up
19. Tanima Paul 2nd Runners up

Most Popular Choice Awards
20. V. Karthikadevi
21. T. Lavanyasobana Runners up

Remarkable Mentor
22. Anjie Chhapia(Peer Leader – Volunteer) 1st
23. Prapti Dutt Runners up
24. Neelam Bharat Sarda Runners up
25. Tanushree Agrawal 2 nd Runners up

Rising Star (All Abilities)
26. Uma Devi Ashok Kumar 1st
27. PAROMITA GOSWAMI 2nd
28. Akalya Krishna 2nd
29. Dharti Vasani 2 nd Runners up

Special Mom/Best Homemaker
30. Meena Joshi
31. Jean Olexa

Best Entrepreneur
32. Dr. Jaya Sajnani Joint Winner
33. Dr Rashmi Mantri Joint winner
34. AnGele Cade Runners up

Champion Of the Earth (Environmentalist)
35. Mittal Kothari
36. Purva Tavri

Outstanding Educational Role Model
37. Jayeeta Ghosh 1st
38. Kashmea Wahi Runners up
39. Mrs Santhakumari Runners up

Promising Professional
40. Dr Neha Sharma Joint Winner
41. Dr Raaji Anand joint Winner
42. Deepika Ganesh Runner up
43. Pinky akash Runner up

SPIRITED FIGHTER
44. Miss Priya Thirugnanarajah Winner
45. Mrs. Kalpana Bhatt Winner
46. Angelique Parvez- Runners up
47. Antara Tallam Runners up
48. Sandhya Aaytee -2 Runners up
49. Kara Maldonado – 2 nd Runners up

Community Partners for this event were JeenaCharity (Rani Bilkhu),Knowledge Movement India, KaushalyaUK (Ritu Sharma), Zabardast Butterflies ( Alamara Awan ), British Indians Voice, LOANI Spirit of Sisterhood ( Caroline Makaka) , Paint Our World ( Dr Priya Virmani )

Special thanks to Sonoo Malkani (Chair Harrow Inter Faith Forum, Ms Mira Misra Kaushik(Co-Founder Manch UK) Krishna Pujara(CEO Enfield Saheli), Warrant Officer Ashok Kumar Chauhan MBE, Lieutenant Colonel Wendy Faux commissioned into the British Army in 1992 as one of the first women to serve directly in the Royal Artillery.YIBN (Yorkshire Indian Business Network) Founders Ezhil Anand and Shivalkar, Former PC Purnima Raval longest serving Hindu lady in the Met Police.

The show started with Odissi dance by Mohammed Yousuf Hossain from Nrityalaap , later Contemporary Dance by Airitri Kundu, student of Tanushree Shankar from the Anand Shankar Dance Troupe and the finale was Bharatnatyam Dance by Mom Sabitha Nalli and Daughter Diya Nalli from Aadya Academy of Fine Arts.

The atmosphere was buzzing with happy faces, beaming with pride, thank you talk and feeling of togetherness with family. The essence of IIW to support women, uplift their profiles and get them closer to their dreams was very visible in this event. IIW created memories for each attendee there to cherish for a long time.
To know more about the Awardees in detail, please check out IIW community page – @InspiringIndianwomen

Photographs courtesy – Mr Vineet Johri
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