WeAreTheCity India’s Rising Star Awards 2017 | In Pictures
WeAreTheCity India celebrated the winners of the 2017 Rising Star Awards at a prestigious ceremony at JW Marriot, Mumbai. Over 120 winners, sponsors, judges and guests attended and enjoyed a champagne reception and welcome by Vanessa Vallely, Founder, WeAreTheCity India; and Apurva Purohit, President of Jagran Prakshan and author of... Read More
WeAreTheCity India announce the 2017 Top 50 Rising Star Winners and Champions
We are extremely proud to announce our winners for WeAreTheCity India’s Top 50 Rising Star Awards 2017. The 50 winners showcases remarkable talent across India from a wide variety of industries and includes individuals from leading firms such as BlackRock, EY, Barclays and Marks and Spencer alongside founders of NGO’s, Charity... Read More
Roshni Marathe | Marks & Spencer
I am Roshni associated with Marks and Spencer for last 5 years, I had achieved a lot during the course of time. I joined in 2012 to support financially to my family, i am having 2 Sisters & apart from my father i was the only one who started earning.... Read More
Apurva Purohit, President of Jagran Prakshan, to open the Rising Star India Awards winner’s celebration
WeAreTheCity India is proud to announce that Apurva Purohit, President of Jagran Prakshan, will open the Rising Star Awards winners’ celebration. Purohit will provide the opening address of our prestigious evening reception, taking place on 14 November in Mumbai, which will celebrate the achievements of the top 50 Rising Stars... Read More
WeAreTheCity India’s 2017 Rising Star Awards Shortlist Announced
We are extremely proud to announce our shortlist for WeAreTheCity India’s Rising Star Awards 2017. The 100-strong shortlist showcases remarkable women across India from a wide variety of industries including banking, consulting, insurance, technology, hospitality, arts and culture, health and wellbeing, retail, entrepreneurs, charity and NGOs, public sector, executive assistants, media and... Read More
Pavitra Chalam | CurleyStreet Media
Pavitra Chalam was a national-champion roller skater and athlete for over a decade before embarking on her journey as a filmmaker. Pavitra represented India as a Peace Ambassador to Pakistan in 2003. As part of the Youth Initiative for Peace in Pakistan, she directed her first film ‘Bus’, a statement... Read More
Virali Modi | Enable Travel
Miss Wheelchair India runner up 2014, Quora’s Top Writer 2013-2017, Winner of Women’s Achievement Award 2017 by DCW, Wheelchair bound disability rights activist, motivational speaker, model, actress. Save Save
Kiahra Punjabi | Sankalp Academy
I’m a certified NLP Master Practitioner, Life strategist & a Post Graduate in Creative Teaching.I have also had the privilege of being listed among the Top 25 most influential women of India by CEO magazine. My husband Amit & I started Sankalp Academy in 2007 which is a leadership consulting... Read More
Aparnaa Nagesh | Madras Dance Arts / High Kicks
Aparna Nagesh is a versatile dance professional with over 18 years of training, teaching and performance experience. She has trained extensively in various dance styles such as Jazz, Ballet, Contemporary, Latin & Street and now creates contemporary dance theatre work under her own unique movement vocabulary titled “Global Dance Fusion”.... Read More
Shalu Varadkar | Mommies World For U & Me
Shalu RV, Founder of Mommies World For U & Me owns an parenting forum which is connected across globe with mothers. She comes from a business class family and have her own business of Event Management & HR, based out of Mumbai. Shalu RV, is working for women empowerment and... Read More
Sonal Singh | Squats
Sonal is Indian-born but grew up in Canada, and studied and worked in London. She has worked as a management consultant at Deloitte in London and is now a Director at SQUATS focusing on Corporate Wellness & Women’s Health. She is also a coach and mentor building confidence and communication... Read More
Sharda Vishwanathan | Tale Weavers
Sharda is a writer, researcher and a social entrepreneur with extensive experience in the development sector. She has worked extensively with nonprofit organisations and grant-making foundations and has been instrumental in designing community engagement programmes and initiatives in areas as diverse as governance, financial literacy, urban planning and human rights.... Read More
Elsa Marie D’Silva | Red Dot Foundation (Safecity)
ElsaMarie D’Silva is the Founder & CEO of Red Dot Foundation (Safecity) which is a platform that crowdsources personal experiences of gender based violence and abuse in public spaces. Since Safecity started in Dec 2012, it has become the largest crowd map on the issue in India, Kenya, Cameroon and... Read More
Vandita Morarka | Safecity (Red Dot Foundation)
Vandita Morarka is a development policy consultant, legal researcher and gender rights facilitator. Her areas of interest are gender justice, legal reform and youth capacity building. She has worked extensively with organisations, philanthropists, government bodies and politicians towards building development based action plans. She has intensively trained over 500 young... Read More
Shivani Pethe | Wonderlab
From the childhood itself I always thought that I was in love with science and its marvelous discoveries but I never understood why almost majority of my friends disliked it? When I thought deeply over it, I realised that it was due to my parents who practically showed me every... Read More
Vanessa Pinto | Barclays
I am a big believer in striving to be the best version of myself and continuous improvement. Having come from a Chemical Engineering, Logistics and Management background, I’ve had the fortune to work with organizations who like to leave things better than they find them including EY, A.P. Moller Maersk... Read More
Divya Singh | DG Pixx
Divya Singh(Gupta) is a National award and multiple other awards winning fashion photographer. Photography is considered a male dominated field wherein she entered and made her mark. An MBA by education, Divya had worked as management professional before finding her love and passion for photography. Divya is a self learned... Read More
Tumpa Chatterjee | Infosys BPO
Never let go of your dreams, because dreams don’t lie. Quoting a line from the book I authored – Laughing Daffodils. If you can dream it, you can do it. And I believe in doing it all passionately. Be it changing rules in school as Head girl, or institutionalizing the... Read More
Surabhi Jain | Nutriwell
Dr Surabhi Jain is a celebrity nutritionist and health professional with more than a decade of progressive experience in the sector. Dr.Surabhi is a doctor by training who later, went on to pursue a Masters’ in Business Administration and post-graduation in nutrition from the esteemed Public Health Foundation of India.In... Read More
Khyati Bhatt | Simply Body Talk
I post-graduated on the Dean’s list from S P Jain Centre of Management, Dubai. After working in the corporate world and mentoring in family business, I trained with worldclass nonverbal expert exFBI Joe Navarro for Mastery in Nonverbal Communication. I started Simply Body Talk in 2013. It was a rocky... Read More