THE ASIAN INDEPENDENT UK-
Let all women rise, let all women become extraordinary from ordinary, let all be happy, let us lift , support and rise together !
Respect, Love and Acknowledgement is all that is needed – IIW (Inspiring Indian Women) in pursuit of spreading just that!!
“Naari” (Women) is referred as “Shakti (Strength)”, and IIW 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 IIW Inspiring Indian Women, a not for profit organisation registered both in India and UK has been organising IIW She Inspires Awards since 2017. This year it was hosted on 24th March by Honourable MP Joy Morrissey Opposition Deputy Chief Whip, MP UK Member of Parliament (MP) for Beaconsfield since 2019 and IIW She Inspires Dharma Dubey Special Awards on 25th March, Hosted by Honourable MP Bob Blackman MP UK Harrow East since 2010.
This is a private event supported by a few M.P held in the Houses of Parliament and has nothing to do with the UK Government. The acknowledgement drive/ award drive invites nominations women from all over the world from any background or ethnicity. Day by day this is becoming very coveted due to the genuinely and the process of selection. The nominations go through two rounds and each profile is filtered with evidences. The award is managed by sponsors and donations.
Other Eminent Personalities who graced the event were Lord Meghnad Desai Padma Bhushan, Honourable Former M.P Theresa Villiers Former Secretary of State, His Worshipful Mayor Harrow Cllr Salim Choudhury, Her Worshipful Mayor Gerrards Cross Cllr Prerna Bhardwaj, Deputy Mayor Cllr Anjana Patel, Cllr Sunil Chopra former Mayor Southwark, Mr Ajay Thakur Attaché Coordination High Commission of India UK, Ms Krishna Pujara CEO Enfield Saheli, Cllr Darshan Sunger, Mr Mahendra Singh Jadeja. Iffty Nasir, Mr Mamit Agarwal, Ms Shalini Bhargava, Mr Akash Singh, Mr Dinesh Tiwari and Ms Sangeeta Khorana, Mr Shivalkar, Mr Gyan Sharma, Mr Santosh Paney, Dr Kalpana Kundan, Mrs Neelam Chawla, Ms Abhnash Bains, Mr Suresh Gupta and several members from Yorkshire Indian Business Network (YIBN), who partnered in this event.
Few others who could pop in for few minutes were, Honourable M.P Navendu Mishra, Honourable M.P Gagan Mohindra, Honourable M.P Stephen Timms, Honourable M.P Rupa Haq.
The main round had eminent personalities as Judges, the names revealed only after the Awards so that people can’t approach or influence. Judges are from all over the world so that there are unlikely chances of being friends on social media. This year the Judges were, Ms Aina Rao Author and IIT Delhi and IIM Bangalore Alumnus, Cllr Lade Hephzibah Olugbemi Mental health advocate, Councillor for West Thamesmead in the Royal Borough of Greenwich , Cllr Nazma Rahman Former Mayor Camden Council , Cllr West Hampstead, Dorothea Hackman Retired Lecturer UCL Chair of Camden Civic Society, Founder and chair of Euston Foodbank., Mrs Mira Mishra Kaushik OBE Independent Curator-Strategist, Consultant, Producer and Cultural leader, Freelance Correspondent TOI Naomi Canton, Ms Natasha Hart MBE Founder & CEO Newham All Star Sports Academy (NASSA) , Nimisha Vyas from United States Visionary Thought Leader | Space Congress/ Space & Policy Advocate | Women in Defence | MBA / NASA , Padmashree Dr Soma Ghosh, Pallavi Jain Co-Founder Australia Today, Tanzia Tahsin Sinha Global Fashion Entreprenuer ( Director Creative Circus , Advisor Boutique Hotels Bangladesh, CEO Vroom Cars Ltd ) Below is the list of women who won this Award-
IIW SHE INSPIRES DHARMA DUBEY SPECIAL AWARDS
Alli Ramanathan Community Spirit, Dr Anjali Ghosh for Remarkable Mentor, Arpita Thakur Bright Artist (Art, Music, Drama, Media, Creative, age 40+ Level 3), Aruna Bansal Spirited Fighter, Caroline Rozario Community Spirit, Dimple Sanghani Best Entrepreneur, Divya Singh Spirited Fighter, Dona Ganguly Bright Artist (Art, Music, Drama, Media, Creative, age 40+ Level 3), Heather Rosemary Lloyd Best Entrepreneur, Imambay Kamara Community Spirit, Juhi Srivastava Spirited Fighter, Krishna Mazumdar Outstanding Educational Role Model, Loveena Tandon Promising Professional, Madhu Chaurasia Promising Professional, Manjari Singh Community Spirit, Manjulika Singh Community Spirit, Nabomita Mazumdar Best Entrepreneur, Nithya Sowmy Special Award for Community Spirit, Pallabi Ghosh Spirited Fighter, Pam Suri Best Entrepreneur, Dr Renuka Anand Bright Artist (Art, Music, Drama, Media, Creative, age 40+ Level 3), Sagarika Chakraborty Dharma Dubey Special Award for Spirited Fighter, Dr Satya Vadlamani Best Entrepreneur, Shagun Parihar Spirited Fighter, Shiwani Manna Community Spirit, Sudha Rawat Community Spirit, Dr S Sukanya Iyer Community Spirit, Surinder Kenth Community Spirit, Vaishali Nagpal Community Spirit, Varsha Bavishi Community Spirit, Veena Jain Bright Artist (Art, Music, Drama, Media, Creative, age 40+ Level 3), Anita Nayyar Outstanding Educational Role Model, Anju Narang Spirited Fighter, Christine Mahanta Community Spirit , Dr Nirmala Murugandoss Promising Professional, Indu Barot Bright Artist (Art, Music, Drama, Media, Creative, age 40+ Level 3), Kavita Gulati Community Spirit, Nalini Vellaswamy Spirited Fighter, Pallavi Joshi Promising Professional (Pioneer in Aviation Asset Management), Shilpa Raj Promising Professional (Aviation Industry) Bhuvana Lenin Community Spirit, Veena Jagpal Community Spirit, Vijayalakshmi Thirugnanarajah Community Spirit, Zamiha Desai Spirited Fighter, Nancy Wadhwa Community Spirit.
IIW SHE INSPIRES AWARDS 2025
Aaral Shrivastava Bright Artist – age 3-20 (Art, Music, Drama, Media, Creative) Winner, Anya Iyengar Bright Artist – age 3-20 (Art, Music, Drama, Media, Creative) Winner, Manasvini Rathish Bright Artist – age 3-20 (Art, Music, Drama, Media, Creative) Winner, Shanika Hodge-Constantin Bright Artist – age 3-20 (Art, Music, Drama, Media, Creative) Winner
Kaira Sawhney Remarkable Mentor Winner, Dr. Sudipti Arora Champion of the Earth (Environmentalist) Winner, Juhie Radia Community Spirit – age 16 to 35 (Welfare or Social Worker) Winner, Enam Community Spirit – age 16 to 35 (Welfare or Social Worker) Winner
Soumita Basu Rising Star (Differently abled / Divyang ) Winner
Zainab Patel Super Special (LGBTQ) Winner, Richa Vashista Super Special (LGBTQ) 1st Runner Up, Sushma Johari Madan Outstanding Educational Role Model Winner, Meena Chauhan Outstanding Educational Role Model 1st Runner Up, Geeta Manish Khubchandani Outstanding Educational Role Model 2nd Runner Up, Pinal Mahendrabhai Rajani Outstanding Educational Role Model 2nd Runner Up
Adwitee Raychaudhuri Promising Professional Winner, Manpreet Kaur Maycock Promising Professional Winner, Anjali Nagaraj Promising Professional 1st Runner Up, Jayasree Varadarajan Promising Professional 1st Runner Up, Dr Anjana Jadeja Promising Professional, 2nd Runner Up Khushbu Varshney Promising Professional 2nd Runner Up
Chitra Pandilwar/ Malkar Remarkable Mentor Winner, Chaitrali Chitre Remarkable Mentor 1st Runner Up, Surinder Kaur Jassal Remarkable Mentor 1st Runner Up, Parul Jain Remarkable Mentor 2nd Runner Up
Jyoti babbar Best Nani/Dadi Winner, Rekha Senapati Most Popular Choice Winner, Tarla Joshi Special Mom/Best Homemaker Winner, Faridah Gullam Special Mom/Best Homemaker 1st Runner Up
Namrata Pandya Community Spirit – age 35+ (Welfare or Social Worker) Winner, Sweta Mohanty Community Spirit – age 35+ (Welfare or Social Worker) Winner, Lou Langford Community Spirit – age 35+ (Welfare or Social Worker) Winner, Nitya Chawla Community Spirit – age 35+ (Welfare or Social Worker) 1st runner Up, Rangamani Tirumalai Vinjamoor Community Spirit – age 35+ (Welfare or Social Worker) 1st runner Up, Anjana Thaker Community Spirit – age 35+ (Welfare or Social Worker) 1st runner Up, Ushma Issar Community Spirit – age 35+ (Welfare or Social Worker) 2nd Runner Up , Vaishnavi Vaitheeswaran Community Spirit – age 35+ (Welfare or Social Worker) 2nd Runner Up, Gayatri Lokhande Community Spirit – age 35+ (Welfare or Social Worker) 2nd Runner Up
Madhuri Joshi Bright Artist – age 21-40 (Art, Music, Drama, Media, Creative) Winner, Parvinder Shergill Bright Artist – age 21-40 (Art, Music, Drama, Media, Creative) Winner, Shreena Patel Bright Artist – age 21-40 (Art, Music, Drama, Media, Creative)1st Runner Up, Simmy Kaur Bakshi Bright Artist – age 21-40 (Art, Music, Drama, Media, Creative) 1st Runner Up, Soumya Mahapatra Bright Artist – age 21-40 (Art, Music, Drama, Media, Creative) 2nd Runner Up, Sreya Sarkar Biswas Bright Artist – age 21-40 (Art, Music, Drama, Media, Creative) 2nd Runner Up
Pradipta Ray Bright Artist – age 40+ (Art, Music, Drama, Media, Creative) Winner, Anashmita Saha, Bright Artist – age 40+ (Art, Music, Drama, Media, Creative) 1st Runner Up, Sabitha Nalli Bright Artist – age 40+ (Art, Music, Drama, Media, Creative) 1st Runner Up, Maya Shah Bright Artist – age 40+ (Art, Music, Drama, Media, Creative) 2nd Runner Up, Ritu Saxena, Bright Artist – age 40+ (Art, Music, Drama, Media, Creative) 2nd Runner Up
Priti Raichura Best Entrepreneur Winner, Divya Garg Best Entrepreneur, Winner, Purvi Shah Best Entrepreneur 1st Runner Up, Sukhninder Chatha-Johal Best Entrepreneur 1st Runner Up, Irah Raj Prakash Bahl Best Entrepreneur 1st Runner Up, Neha Chandok Best Entrepreneur 2nd Runner Up, Shilpam Bidasaria Best Entrepreneur 2nd Runner Up, Ammupriya Munusamy Best Entrepreneur 2nd Runner Up
Chitra Roshini Ronald Spirited Fighter (Defied the Odds) Winner, Dolly Ahuja Spirited Fighter (Defied the Odds) Winner, Ankita Sharma Spirited Fighter (Defied the Odds) 1st Runner up, Himani Agarwal Spirited Fighter (Defied the Odds) 1st Runner up, Niati Khanna Spirited Fighter (Defied the Odds) 1st Runner up, Sruchi Vadalia Oza Spirited Fighter (Defied the Odds) 2nd Runner Up, Bhavna Pandya Spirited Fighter (Defied the Odds) 2nd Runner Up. It would not be fair if the Judges for the preliminary round are not acknowledged. They filtered the 150 nominations and decided the 100 Finalists. They were, Abarna Muthupalaniappan, Rania Lampou, Nyla Khan, Nancy Chawla, Anmol Kaur, Josephine Raj HH Dr Winfred Wanjiku Gitonga, Eula Clarke, Anjali Mavi , Anu Sharma , Carol Edmondson, Reena Bagga, Harsha Trivedi, Neha Gupta, Kamalpreet Madaan, Shailaja Veeranki, Sushma Bhanot MBE.
The IIW Team which worked hard to make it happen since last three months were Rashmi Mishra, Betania Fernandes, Chinu Kishore, Chanda Jha, Dr Sneh Sunny, Anjali Sharma, Ashish Chandra, Cllr Pushpa Makwana, Chinmaya Srikanta, Deepa Vaswani, Jay Desai, Maddy, Hemainti Kumar, Ritu Sharma, Smita Mishra, Pritha Mukherjee, Sarika Handa, Shalini Saxena, Shalini Jain, Sunita Chaubey, Seema Khandelwal, Shipra Gomes, Nimish Juvekar, Anupriya , Priyanka and Susendiran
The beaming faces and a sense of pride spread all over made it all worth it. IIW She Inspires Awards has come a long way.
