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The largest ethnic event of Moscow celebrated on the occasion of 75th Year of India Independence and India-Russia friendship attracted over 2 Million guests over the 4-day mega show at the Dream Island landscape park. Indian Ambassador Pawan Kapoor opened the festival by planting an apple tree. In total, 75 such apple trees were planted at the festival site – in honor of the 75th anniversary of India’s independence, which is celebrated this year, and the anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Moscow and New Delhi. The founder of the India Day Festival, President of the Indian National Cultural Center SITA Sammy Kotwani said, “Everyone knows that India is a big family of peoples and traditions. By planting 75 trees, we proclaimed unity. Proclaimed that we are a family! Apple trees are a symbol of fertility, health, love and beauty, and that is why apple trees were planted as a sign of strong friendship between the two countries.” From India, Prime Communication and Beauty & The Best was official media partner of the event. Prime Communication Managing Editor, Preeti Puja also unveiled annual coffee table book titled,” Shining India” which features Indian Prime Minister, top delegates across the world alongwith Mr Sammy Kotwani, President of SITA, the host of India Day Festival. India Day Festival was attended by guest from 11th-14th August 2022 at the picturesque Dream Island landscape park. During the four days of the festival, Muscovites and guests from India along with of the capital were able to enjoy a joyful and friendly atmosphere, taste spicy Indian dishes, purchase Indian goods, take part in spiritual practices, watch Bollywood films and concerts of Indian and Russian performers, and also make wedding ceremony in accordance with Indian traditions. The Indian guest included celebrity makeup artist and Mrs India 2021 Pageant winner, Prachi Gandhi and multi-talented& versatile Sona, who owns Sona Beauty Therapy and also fashion choreographer. They conducted Dance Master Class and fashion show with students of Kendriya Vidyalaya in Moscow at the festival , which was highly applied by the audience. The guests were greeted by the symbol of India, stunning in its beauty – a copy of the Taj Mahal, located between the fountains of the park. Like the previous six years, admission was free for visitors. The theme of the festival this year was ecology and a healthy lifestyle. At the decorated Vedic venue VEDA WEEKEND, which combines spiritual communication and rich cultural outdoor recreation, one could take part in Indian dance master classes, listen to lectures on Ayurveda, meditate, read mantras, do yoga, watch spherical films, put on hands mehendi, check your eyesight. The well-known psychologist Svetlana Nazoeva conducted the “Support Corridor” practice, which allowed the participants of the festival to relax and start healing processes inside their bodies. And Alexei Sergienko, a yogi from St. Petersburg, did yoga for the eyes, helping to restore poor eyesight. During all the days of the festival solemn wedding ceremonies were held – couples passed the ceremony according to Indian traditions. One of the couples who played an Indian wedding at the festival was the rapper ST and his wife, TV presenter and blogger Assol. The wedding ceremony was held live on the Moscow 24 TV channel. According to the couple, who have been together for 8 years, and 7 of which ST and Assol are officially married, the event will only strengthen their relationship. In total, 200 Russian couples will got married during the four-day friendship festival. The wedding of two stars will be one of the brightest and most spectacular processions in the ParachuteWedding Zone specially prepared for this procession. On the final day of the festival, a celebration of the riot of colors Holi took place, which began with the performance of the driving songs of the SPB group! and incendiary dances of the girls from the Bombay Dance team. During the extravaganza of colors, wandering drummers from India staged an impressive show, giving each guest a sea of emotions.

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 www.exposurelondon.co.uk

Delhi Government’s think tank Dialogue and Development Commission of Delhi (DDC) held a networking meeting with women entrepreneurs to connect with ‘Delhi Bazaar’ web portal. Women entrepreneurs of Delhi welcomed the decision of Delhi government and gave many practical information for the upcoming portal. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal recently announced that Delhi will have its own e-market place ‘Delhi Bazaar’ portal, where every small and big shopkeeper will have a virtual store through which you will be able to sell your goods online all over the world. An effort will be made to ensure that buyers as well as sellers get positive results in the web portal. In this, women entrepreneurs-representatives associated with women’s business organizations like jewellery, apparel industry, fashion designers, boutiques, salons, makeup and cosmetic industry etc. participated in the meeting. Women’s market associations discussed the role of training their members to run online businesses. Presiding over the meeting, DDC Vice-Chairman Jasmin Shah said that women entrepreneurs are an integral part of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s vision of ‘Delhi Bazaar’. Its objective is to provide an equal opportunity to all types of traders and shopkeepers of Delhi. To make this a reality, the Delhi government will provide assistance to 2 lakh women entrepreneurs in Delhi and connect them with the portal. So that they can reach bigger markets and grow their business. The salon industry has suffered a huge financial loss due to the Corona epidemic. Delhi government, Arvind Kejriwal, Kejriwal government, women entrepreneurs, Delhi market, women traders, Delhi Dialogue and Development Commission, DDC, Delhi News, Delhi Government, Arvind Kejriwal, Kejriwal government, women entrepreneurs, Dilli Bazaar, women traders, Delhi Dialogue and Development Commission, DDC, Delhi News. The salon industry has suffered a huge financial loss due to the Corona epidemic and this process is still going on. But with the launch of such an initiative, it will be easier for all of us salon owners and makeup artists to work with it. At present, those who have 20 to 50 employees in a salon are not able to meet their expenses. Meenakshi Dutt, Vice President of SOVA says that welcome to this wonderful ‘Delhi Bazaar’ web portal. We hope that all the women entrepreneurs of Delhi will take advantage of this initiative. Joining the portal will help Delhi’s beauty industry grow. We hope that all salon owners and make-up workers will work closely with the government. Appreciating this initiative, Shikha Sharma, President of the Nutritionist and Dietician Association, said that the Delhi Government stands with the businesses of small women traders. He said that the Delhi government is the first government to identify our issues and work towards making us partners in the ‘Delhi Bazar’ project. Women entrepreneurs of our region welcome the efforts of Delhi Government and assure them of cooperation. Brijesh Goyal, founder of the Chamber of Trade and Industry (CTI) Mahila Parishad, said that the Delhi government’s efforts to mobilize women entrepreneurs and make them an important part of the project are unprecedented. This will help the Delhi government to coordinate with them. Preeti Puja, Founder, Prime Communication Media also spoke about the Indo-British Forum, which will also help women entrepreneurs to build their businesses globally. Prachi Gandhi, Mrs. India Winner 2021（Classic）raised concern about the women getting unemployed in the salon industry due to corona and also suggested measures for women safety who often pay visit to unknown houses for giving parlour services. Life Coach Dr. Paarul Singh, spoke about the importance of mental wellbeing in the service industry and how to balance the daily chores of life. Whereas ace celebrity designer Siimie Kaur from Aayana by Siimi showed her concern on local for vocal. Her main vision is to promote work of local artisans globally.