Rising Beyond the Ceiling

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Delhi Inspiring Indian Muslim Women

This publication will shine a spotlight on one hundred Indian Muslim women from Delhi who have who have contributed in nation building in a range of fields - From politicians, academics, lawyers, doctors, creative artists, administrators, police women, entrepreneurs, social workers, authors, journalists, media and other fields.

The hundred women in the spotlight on this publication are only a small sliver of the Muslim women in Delhi. There are many others working in districts, communities, government and non-government organizations and in independent enterprises who are making tremendous inspirational contributions in many ways and in various ways. RBTC Delhi continues to invite your nominations for inspiring Muslim women of the state which can be sent to Ms. Miriam Fozia Rahman, Coordinator RBTC for Delhi at fozia.rahman@gmail.com and Ms. Alishah Ali, Researcher RBTC Delhi at walledcitygirl@gmail.com

MIRIAM FOZIA RAHMAN, Coordinator, Delhi State, Rising Beyond the Ceiling Initiative. Advocate at the Supreme Court of India, New Delhi. Contact at fozia.rahman@gmail.com

Miriam Fozia Rahman is an advocate practicing before the Supreme Court of India and various High Courts for over 15 years. Ms. Rahman obtained B.A.LL.B. Honors degree from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh in the year 2004.
Fozia combines the unique background, training and experiences of a legal practitioner, a research academic, and a policy advisor and has worked in the fields of human rights, refugee law & international law, as a Social Justice Lawyer. She also worked as a Senior Legal Editor for LexisNexis Butterworths, India where she carried out legal research and editing of different Law books; journals and magazines. She has trained on team management, personal planning; virtual Intelligence including handling projects regarding building & development of legal research databases.
She has worked as deputy director for Public Interest Legal Support and Research Center which was the legal implementing partner for United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees, UNHCR India. She has also worked as a legal advisor and advocate and appeared in several constitutional, administrative, civil, corporate and family law cases before the Supreme Court, High Court and District Courts. There are several reported judgments of the Supreme Court/High Court wherein she has appeared/argued/assisted.
Fozia has vast and extensive experience of working around issues of social justice, non-governmental organizations, human rights institutions and others. She also routinely serves a formal and informal advisor to various government departments, regulatory institutes, research centers and think-tanks. She has worked to provide credible legal research, strategic interventions and theoretical analyses for public interest litigations and social action campaigns, justice sector reforms with a particular focus on the mediation & conciliation with a particular focus on the judiciary and the courts in India.
Apart from her commitment to the legal practice Ms. Rahman is committed to the cause of women, children and other sections of societies which are underprivileged and disadvantaged. She has undertaken Projects for highest government body constituted to work on the rights of Women in India, organized presentations, seminars and conferences and at National level. She also has been associated with Non-Profits of national/international repute and conducted workshops and skill building sessions on legal aspect of their work. She has done extensive work on women and violence both in and outside of the Court Rooms. She has been working with Companies/organizations on implementation of law relating to prevention of Sexual Harassment at workplace by helping draft their policy, set up the compliance structure, conduct inquiries. She conducts regular workshops for gender sensitization and building awareness in management and employees on the law relating to SHW.
Fozia serves as the external member on the Internal Complaints Committee of reputed companies and organization. Fozia while perusing her passion for social change has organized as well participated as speaker and researcher in various International Seminars and Conferences; dealing with different issues and creating awareness among the general masses building a bridge between eminent Jurists and the common man. She is a regular participant in regional and international academic conferences and seminars and is also a frequent speaker and trainer in her areas of expertise for a variety of local legal and non-legal audiences. She is keen of disseminating the legal knowledge and awareness in the country for the betterment and upliftment of the society and the country with a strong desire to contribute and add value to the justice system in India
Links/References:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/miriam-fozia-rahman/?originalSubdomain=in

ALISHAH ALI, Volunteer Analyst, Delhi Rising Beyond the Ceiling Initiative Delhi Institute of Heritage Research and Management. Delhi. Contact at walledcitygirl@gmail.com

Alishah Ali, a post-graduate student in conservation and heritage management, Dilli is never far from her heart, or her mind. Alishah’s inherent passion for workings of this vibrantly pulsating city is reflected in the knowledge she possesses of its nooks and crannies along with the work she undertakes to contribute to its cause. She has been awarded the undergraduate research grant- ‘Past in Delhi’s Present: Historical and Environmental Archive of Delhi and the Community Research Scholarship from Sahitya Kala Parishad, Govt. of Delhi. Alishah has taken on internships skirting around heritage conservation, heritage management, and museology in organizations like National Mission on Monuments and Antiquities, GoUNESCO, India Lost and Found, INTACH, and Partition Museum. Along with the internships, she is co-founder of an organization that promotes intangible and tangible heritage called Chakor Lakeerein, and initiated cultural activities as the Cultural Secretary and the General in-charge of her college during graduation.

Rising Beyond The Ceiling Delhi: Nominations

Shattering Stereotypes in Uniform [2 nominees- need to add others ]

RBTC Delhi nominee. ASLAM KHAN. Indian Police Service (2007), Union Territory Cadre. Served as Deputy Commissioner of Police, Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

Ms. Aslam Khan is an officer of the Indian Police Service of 2007 Batch, Union Territory Cadre. She current serves as Superintendent of Police in Bureau of Police Research & Development (BPR&D) since 2019.
Ms. Khan served as deputy commissioner of police, Delhi’s north-west district It was the first time in nearly six years that the district was being helmed by a woman officer and Khan came in with the reputation of a strict and upright officer. She had barely settled into the job, when she found herself handling a crime that has been a constant nightmare for the police. On the fifth anniversary of the Nirbhaya gang-rape case, a 16-year-old girl was gang-raped by three men in a park in her district. Early in the probe, one of the 2,000 suspects claimed he was around when his friends raped the girl. But Ms. Khan realized he was only trying to frame his enemies. She refused to arrest him and continued the hunt. Police nabbed the three suspects 20 days later, but it won Ms. Aslam Khan the respect and loyalty of her officers.
Born in a family of farmers in a village in Rajasthan, it was a unique situation that got her the name of ‘Aslam’ — a name usually reserved for men. She says that her parents were expecting a boy and they had decided the name. So, even though a girl was born, they went ahead with the name. Aslam Khan’s parents gave her all opportunities for education, despite being uneducated themselves. Ms. Khan topped the political science stream in her graduation. Be it getting a scooter or more pocket money, she did not lose out to her two younger brothers.
Ms. Khan also set an example when she decided to lend a helping hand to the the family of a deceased truck driver in Jammu, Sardar Maan Singh, who was murdered by a gang of robbers on January 9, 2018, in Jahangirpuri. She was appreciated for going beyond her line of duty to help a family in need. .
References/Sources
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/51344126.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppsthttps://www.indianwomenblog.org/meet-the-ips-officer-who-sends-half-her-salary-to-a-deceased-truck-drivers-family-every-month/https://thelogicalindian.com/exclusive/delhi-ips-officer-shares-monthly-salary-jammu-family-lost-sole-breadwinner/https://archive.siasat.com/news/ips-officer-aslam-khan-helps-mansinghs-family-sets-example-humanity-1377546/https://sheroes.com/communities/career-and-exams/Mjc5/MjEzMzE3

RBTC Delhi nominee. NUZHAT HASSAN. Indian Police Service (1991). Union Territory Cadre. ex Deputy Commissioner of Police, Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

Ms Nuzhat Hassan, Nuzhat is a 1991 batch Indian Police Service officer of the Union Territory cadre. A post-graduate in Chemistry from Delhi University and a post-graduate in Mass Communication from the Jamia Milia Islamia, Ms Nuzhat Hassan was till recently the Deputy Commissioner of Police, East District, Delhi. She has served as Director General of Police at Andamans and Nicobar.
An IPS officer of the 1991 batch (AGMU cadre), Ms. Hassan has been involved in various academic activities and has also won several national scholarships and awards for merit During the last 10 years, Ms Nuzhat Hassan has held various posts in the police, including those ofS.P. Telecom, Arunachal Pradesh, with additional charge of Motor Transport; DCP-Anti Corruption;and Additional DCP of New Delhi District. Her husband, Taj Hassan, is an IPS officer of the 1987 batch.
Ms Nuzhat Hassan has undergone various training courses and has participated in variousconferences, the most prestigious of which is the Indo-UK Police Conference, Liverpool (UK).Apart from winning various merit awards and national scholarships,
References/Sources
https://indianmasterminds.com/movements/ips-officer-nuzhat-hassan-gets-additional-charge-of-spl-commissioner-pl-delhi-police/https://police.andaman.gov.in/images/stories/pdf/press-release/2017/27-6-17-p-h-q.pdf

Excellence in Academics [13 nominees]

RBTC Delhi nominee. AYESHA KIDWAI. Delhi. Theoretical Linguist. Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. Infosys Prize for Humanities (2013). Click side arrow for profile details.

Ayesha Kidwai is an Indian theoretical linguist. She is a professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, and an awardee of the Infosys Prize for Humanities in 2013.
Ms. Kidwai's theoretical linguistics work has applied Noam Chomsky's notion of Universal grammar to South Asian languages. In particular, she studied the parameters that explain the syntactic properties of Meiteilon, Santali, Bengali and Malayalam. She proposed a novel theory on free word order, exemplified by scrambled noun-phrases in Hindi-Urdu. Ayesha Kidwai has served as Senior Editor, Oxford Research Encyclopedia. She has been a visiting professor in a number of institutions in the US and Europe.
Ms. Kidwai undertook several research projects in field linguistics. Between 1999 and 2001, she investigated the acquisition of the Hindi language among children, and she studied the Urdu's socio-cultural effects on other Indian languages. She showed that because Sanskrit-speaking ruling classes captured only the public domain, this prestige language was unable to completely cripple less prestigious languages (Indo-Aryan, Dravidian and Austro-Asiatic) that pervaded the subcontinent.
Ayesha set up a committee to help orient and sensitize against sexual harassment on the campus of Jawaharlal Nehru University. It was responsible for crisis management as well as mediation, investigation, and redress in response to complaints of sexual harassment. The template was adopted by other universities across India. In 2013, a survey she co-organised with Madhu Sahni revealed that more than half the women in JNU had suffered sexual harassment. Kidwai also investigated the fates of women abducted during the Partition, reporting in 2014 that nearly 80,000 women had been found in the massive recovery operations in the aftermath of the Partition. Ayesha Kidwai obtained a master's and doctoral degree in linguistics from the Jawaharlal Nehru University.
References/Sourceshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayesha_Kidwai

RBTC Delhi nominee. REHANA KHATOON. Persian Scholar, ex Head of the Department of Persian, Delhi University. Padma Shri Award Recipient (2014). Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

Rehana Khatoon is an Indian scholar, teacher of Persian language, former Head of the Department of Persian, University of Delhi and the author of Encyclopaedia of Persian Language and Literature (India and Pakistan). She was honoured by the Government of India, in 2014, by bestowing on her the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award, for her contributions to the propagation of Persian language and literature.
Rehana Khatoon is the first woman alumni of the Aligarh Muslim University to be awarded the Padma Shri. She was born on 30 August 1948 in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India. Rehana received master’s degree in Persian 1973, M. Phil 1975 and doctorate degree in Persian in the year 1980 from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. She started her academic career as a Research Associate and received UGC Fellowships and awards namely Doctoral Research Fellow, Research Scientist–A and Career Award. She joined Department of Persian, University of Delhi in 1980 and since then has been associated with the department as a faculty member.
Prof. Rehana contributed 32 books and 180 articles and research papers in Persian, English, Urdu and Hindi published in India and abroad. She has also chaired 71 national and international conferences, attended 118 conferences in India and abroad. She has contributed rare original researches to the Persian Literature and guided PhD students from USA and other part of the globe.
Sources/References https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rehana_Khatoon

RBTC Delhi nominee. FARHANA IBRAHIM. Professor of Sociology & Author, Indian Institute of Technology. Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

Farhana Ibrahim is a social anthropologist whose research interests include the study of borders, policing, migration and ethnographic perspectives on the state.
Farahana's first book, 'Settlers, Saints, and Sovereigns: An Ethnography of State Formation in Western India' (Routledge 2009) is based on ethnographic research among Muslim pastoral communities in Gujarat along the Kutch - Sindh border. Her second book, From Family to Police Force: Security and Belonging on a South Asian Border (forthcoming, Cornell University Press) is an ethnography of policing, civil-military relations, kinship and surveillance on a south Asian borderland. She has also edited (with Tanuja Kothiyal) South Asian Borderlands: Mobility, History, Affect (Cambridge University Press) and is the book reviews editor of the SAGE journal, 'Contributions to Indian Sociology'.
References/Sources
https://hss.iitd.ac.in/faculty/farhana-ibrahim

RBTC Delhi nominee. IMRANA QADEER. Professor, Public Health Expert, Editor, Author. Council for Social Development. Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

Prof. Imrana Qadeer is a well known public health expert. Before joining the Council for Social Development (CSD), New Delhi in 2012, she was professor in Jawaharlal Nehru University, where she taught for 35 years and then served as J.P. Naik Senior Fellow at the Centre for Women’s Development Studies. Her area of interest includes organisational issues in health services in South Asia with a special focus on India, social epidemiology and political economy of health, women’s health and research methodology with an emphasis on interdisciplinary research methodologies. She has also worked with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the Planning Commission, Population Commission and the advisory and monitoring bodies for the National Rural Health Mission. Prof. Imrana Qadeer was the editor of CSD’s Social Development Report – 2014: Challenges of Public Health, Oxford University Press.

References/Sources
https://csdindia.org/people/faculty/prof-imrana-qadeer-distinguished-faculty/

RBTC Delhi nominee. ZOYA HASAN. Professor, Political Scientist. Former Dean of School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

Zoya Hasan is an academician and political scientist. She served as Professor of Political Science and Dean of the School of Social Sciences at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She was also selected as a member of the National Commission for Minorities from 2006 to 2009. Dr. Hasan has been Chairperson of the Centre for Political Studies, founding Director of the Centre for Women's Studies and the Centre for the Study of Discrimination and Exclusion of the School of Social Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU).
Dr. Hasan has been a Visiting Professor to the Universities of Zurich, Edinburgh, and Maison des Sciences de L'Homme, Paris, and has held fellowships at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Rockefeller Centre, Bellagio, and Centre for Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin. She has worked on research projects for the Indian Council of Social Science Research, Ford Foundation, DFID, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development and the Observer Research Foundation.
Prof. Hasan’s work has focused on the State, political parties, ethnicity gender and minorities in India, and society in north India. Known for her path-breaking work on the politics of Uttar Pradesh, she has also undertaken extensive research on the social and educational aspects of Indian Muslims and Muslim women. Her interest in Indian Government and politics, the State party system, political mobilization minority rights and gender studies is reflected in her various research studies and book.
Amongst the many books she has authored, include: Quest for Power, Oppositional Movements and Post-Congress Politics in Uttar Pradesh (Oxford University Press, 1998). Unequal Citizens: Muslim Women in India (with Ritu Menon) (Oxford University Press, 2004) and Educating Muslim girls: a comparison of five Indian cities (with Ritu Menon) (Women Unlimited, 2005). Congress after Indira: Policy, Power and Political Change (1984-2009), Democracy and the Crisis of Inequality: Collection of Essays, Politics of Inclusion: Castes, Minorities and Affirmative Action, Democracy in Muslim Societies: The Asian Experience, and India’s Living Constitution: Ideas, Practices, Controversies. Along with Mushirul Hasan, she co-edited CSD’s publication, India: Social Development Report – 2012, Minorities at the Margins.
Prof. Hasan holds a PhD from Pennsylvania State University, USA.
References:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoya_Hasanhttp://csdindia.org/people/faculty/zoya-hasan-visiting-faculty/https://www.thehinducentre.com/leadership/advisors/article23480809.ece

RBTC Delhi nominee. AMINA KAZI ANSARI. Professor of English & Foreign Students Adviser. Jamia Millia Islamia Univeristy, Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

Dr. Amina Kazi Ansari, Professor Department of English. Jamia Millia Islamia, is the author of several books
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, MEG-3, New Delhi: Indira Gandhi National Open University, 1988.‘Canadian Literature: Scanning the Literary Landscape’, New Literatures in English, MEG – 8, New Delhi: Indira Gandhi National Open University, 2002.English-Canadian Literary Canon: Emergence and Development, New Delhi: Creative Books, 2003.Translation/Representation, co-edited with Anisur Rahman, New Delhi: Creative Books, 2008.‘Ice-Candy Man’ in Postcolonial Literature, Kota, Rajasthan: Vardhman Mahaveer Open University, 2009.Indian English Women Poets, co-edited with Anisur Rahman, New Delhi: Creative Books, 2009.The Complete Short Stories, Volume I, of Premchand, co-edited with Anisur Rahman, Oxford University Press, 2009 (in press)
References/Sources
https://www.jmi.ac.in/aboutjamia/departments/english/faculty-members/Prof_Ameena_Kazi_Ansari-1664https://www.hindustantimes.com/delhi/jamia-attracts-students-from-abroad/story-W6DTXa1scAweu2TVh0Z9yL.html

RBTC Delhi nominee. AMNA MIRZA. Assistant Professor of Political Science. University of Delhi. Recipient Godfray Philips Golden Ovary Award. Click side arrow for profile details.

Dr.Amna Mirza is an alumini of Delhi Public School (Mathura Road), St.Stephens College (Bachelors Degree- BA Program), Hindu College (Masters Degree in Political Science), M.Phil & PhD from University of Delhi & Master of Business Administration (Human Resources) from United Business Institute (Belgium).
Dr. Mirza is currently Assistant Professor of Political Studies, University of Delhi . An avid traveller, voracious reader & vegan, her academic initiatives took her to University of Duisburg Essen (Germany), University of Fribourg (Switzerland) amongst others.
Amna is recipient of ‘Godfray Philips Golden Ovary Award’, St.Stephens College Centenary Medal for ‘character combined with learning’, amongst others. She has been associated with art & culture festivals and regularly contributes columns to several newspapers and magazines. She has four books to her credit which were well received by academic, media and others alike
References/Sources
https://www.wef.org.in/dr-amna-mirza/

RBTC Delhi nominee. NISHAT ZAIDI, Scholar, Critic, Translator, Jamia Millia Islamia University, Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

Dr. Nishat Zaidi is a scholar, critic, and translator and Professor at the Department of English at Jamia Millia Islamia University. Her research and teaching interests include Indian Writing in English/Postcolonial Writings, Indian Literatures in English Translation, Feminist Studies, American Poetry, Translations, Reception of Islam in India, Shiite and Sufi traditions and their representation in Indian Literatures, Nineteenth century literary traditions and cultural configurations in Urdu and Hindi. She has more than 24 years of experience of teaching in various central Universities in India.
Dr. Zaidi has authored/edited/translated 10 books, guest edited two special issues of prestigious journals, supervised/supervising 13 Ph.Ds and 17 M.Phil dissertations. Besides these she has published a large number of scholarly papers and reviews in national and international journals, and participated and presented papers in national and international seminars/conferences. Research Awards/ Grants.
Dr. Zaidi's recent publications include Day and Dastan, a translation with Alok Bhalla of Intizar Husain’s two novellas; Story is a Vagabond: Fiction, Essays and Drama by Intizar Husain, a collection which she coedited; and Makers of Indian Literature: Agha Shahid Ali.
Nishat has been awarded several grants which include under Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India sponsored ‘Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaborations’ (SPARC) to carry out a Project as Principal Investigator on “Debating and Calibrating the Vernacular in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asian Literature and Culture” in collaboration with South Asia Institute, Universität Heidelberg, 2019- 2021.
References/Sources
https://www.jmi.ac.in/aboutjamia/departments/english/former-faculty-members/Dr_Nishat_Zaidi-1667

RBTC Delhi nominee. UZMA AZHAR, Academician. Jamia Millia Islamia University, Delhi. President Zameen Collective. Click side arrow for profile details.

Dr. Uzma Azhar is an academician with years of experience in Teaching and Research across institutes and major universities such as Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), South Asian University (SAU), School of Planning and Architecture (SPA), Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU). She is presently working on the project “Archiving Living Residue of a Lost World: Medieval City’s Pre-Modern Occupations in Post Modern Times”, on Shahjahanabad funded by Azim Premji Research Foundation.
Uzma holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Jamia Millia Islamia and pursued her graduation and master’s from Delhi University and Jamia Millia Islamia respectively. Dr. Uzma has 5 books published in her name and has contributed towards course material for IGNOU’s updated course for UG and PG program. She has written on contemporary issues of Politics and Culture for various journals and news media.
Dr. Azhar has curated audio-visual modules for Sahapedia as “Exploring Shahjahanabad in Old Delhi’. Uzma has also carried out an original study on Art Maker and the Growth of the Private Galleries in Delhi for IFA. An academic by training and vocation, she also publishes poetry on her blog.
Uzma is also the President of Zameen Collective (a group of creative individuals from different fields) working actively in the fields of contemporary art practices, Performance Art, pedagogy, and culture.
Sources/References
https://www.sahapedia.org/saha-user/dr-uzma-azharhttp://uzmaazharali.blogspot.com/2015/10/my-experiences-as-teacher-at-jamia.htmlhttps://www.dailyo.in/arts/saif-mahmood-beloved-delhi-old-delhi-ghalib-urdu-shahjahanabad/story/1/27711.html

RBTC Delhi nominee. GHAZALA JAMIL, Assistant Professor, Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi Click side arrow for profile details.

Ghazala Jamil is an assistant professor at Center for the study of Law and Governance at Jawaharlal Nehru University. She is known as the author of the book ‘Accumulation by Segregation: Muslim Localities in Delhi and ‘Muslim Women Speak: Of Dreams and Shackles. Ghazala has also co-translated Initzar Hussain’s Once There Was a City Named Dilli.
Ghazala has a Ph.D. from the University of Delhi in Social Work and has finished her Masters in Social work and BSc in Mathematics from Jamia Millia Islamia.
Ghazala has years of experience in teaching as a guest faculty in SPA Delhi and full-time engagements with various grass-root level groups and development organisations. Her core interests include Urbanisation, Materiality, and Spatiality of Culture and Social Movements.
Dr. Jamil has been honoured with the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust grant and has been the associate Fellow at Council for Social Development.
Sources/References
https://www.jnu.ac.in/content/ghazalajamil

RBTC Delhi nominee. HINA ZIA. Urban Planner. Jamia Millia Islamia University, Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

Hina Zia has worked on WHO’s (World Health Organisation) efforts in bringing a health perspectiveand practical guidance to the improvements in the built environment to be enacted in response toclimate change, including mitigation and adaptation measures such as in energy efficiency. Thisestablished the need for development of healthy housing guidelines work which started in 2011.
Hina represents the Asian perspective and am part of the Guidelines Development Group on HealthyHousing. The housing and health guidelines would support policy makers with scientificevidence and recommendations for healthy housing conditions. This should fill an important gapin defining healthy housing, to complement the existing labels and indices on green housing.Some of the activities covered so far are shortlisting of criteria to be selected for the guidelines,writing position papers on the shortlisted topics, framing of PECO and PICO questions as per thestandard methodology, review of systematic reviews and contributing specifically to evidence onHeat Stress and Cold Stress, several face-to-face and online meetings. The work is in advancedstages of completion.
Countries of Work Experience: Bhutan, Switzerland, Thailand, Indonesia
References/Sources
https://www.jmi.ac.in/upload/employeeresume/hzia.pdf

RBTC Delhi nominee. KAHKASHAN Y. DANYAL. Professor of Law, Former Statuary Member, Delhi State Legal Services Authority. Jamia Millia Islamia University. Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

Author of Muslim Law Of Marriage, Dower, Divorce And MaintenanceKahkashan Y. Danyal
References/Sources
https://www.jmi.ac.in/upload/employeeresume/kdanyal.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEVZ0FUbDs8

RBTC Delhi nominee. NUZHAT KAZMI. Professor at Department of Art History & Art Appreciation, Jamia Millia Islamia. Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

Brief Description
References/Sources
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nuzhat-kazmi-a2415449/?originalSubdomain=in

RBTC Delhi nominee. SEEMA KAZI. Author and Researcher on Muslim Women in India. Centre for Women's Development Studies. Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

Seema Kazi specializes in women and development. She has been educated in India, the Netherlands and Norway. She is associated with the network Women Living Under Muslim Laws and has carried out research on Muslim women in India. She currently works as an independent researcher on Muslim women in India and human rights education in Muslim societies.
References/Sources
https://www.cwds.ac.in/faculty-and-staff/faculty-and-researchers/seema-kazi/https://minorityrights.org/wp-content/uploads/old-site-downloads/download-130-Muslim-Women-in-India.pdf

Impassioned Authors & Poets [ 9 nominees]

RBTC Delhi nominee. ANNIE ZAIDI, Author, Scriptwriter, Filmaker. Winner of Nine Dots Prize. New Delhi/Mumbai. Click side arrow for profile details.

Annie Zaidi 42, is an Author, Scriptwriter, Filmmaker, and Journalist from India. She is best known for her award-winning collection of essays, Known Turf: Bantering with Bandits and Other True Tales. She co-authored ‘The Good Indian Girl’ and has published literary essays, reportage, and columns in several magazines and websites, including Caravan, Republica, Griffith Review, Frontline, The Hindu, Scroll, and many others.
Zaidi began her career as a reporter with stints at leading newspapers and magazines including Mid-Day and Frontline. She has published both fiction and non-fiction: Known Turf: Bantering with Bandits and Other True Tales is a collection of essays shortlisted for the Crossword Book Award in 2010, and Love Stories # 1 to 14 is a collection of short fiction published in 2012. In 2015, she published an anthology called Unbound: 2,000 Years of Indian Women’s Writing. Elle magazine named Zaidi as one of the emerging South Asian writers “whose writing… will enrich South Asian literature”. She currently works as a freelance writer, working on fiction, scripts and columns for magazines and newspapers. Annie Zaidi, has been announced as the winner of the Nine Dots Prize 2019/20.
Sources/References
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Zaidi
https://ninedotsprize.org/winners/annie-zaidi/

RBTC Delhi nominee. RAKSHANDA JALIL, Award winning Author, Translator, Critic, Literary Historian. New Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

Rakshanda Jalil 57 (born 21 July 1963), is a Delhi-based author, translator, critic, and literary historian. Dr. Jalil has authored over 25 books and 50 academic papers and essays. Best known for her acclaimed books such as Invisible City: The Hidden Monuments of India, The Great War: Indian Writings on the first World War among the others,
Dr. Jalil began her career as a lecturer at Khalsa College. She later went on to join the Aligarh Muslim University as a lecturer while being the editorial assistant at Tata McGraw-Hill Book Publishing Company. In the years that followed she had been the sub-editor and assistant editor in the Publications Divisions of the India International Center. Rakshanda has also worked at Jamia Millia Islamia University as a director of the outreach program and co-edited a quarterly journal called Third Frame: Literature, Culture, and Society which was published and distributed by Cambridge University Press. She was also a senior associate fellow at the Council of Social Development, New Delhi, and associate editor of Social Change, the journal brought by the same. Rakshanda has been awarded the Kaifi Azmi Award for her contribution to Urdu and KLF Peace Prize awarded by the Karachi Literature festival along with the German Embassy for her translation of ‘The Sea Lies Ahead’. Rakshanda is the first awardee of the Jawad Memorial Prize for Urdu-English translation of ‘Smoke’, a short story written by Gulzar. She also recently bagged the 5th Vani Foundation Distinguished Translator Award.
Ms. Jalil completed her schooling at Delhi Public School, Mathura Road after which she graduated in English Literature from Miranda House, Delhi University. She has done her Ph.D. in ‘Progressive Writers Movement as reflected in Urdu’.
References/Sources
https://www.poetrytranslation.org/translators/rakhshanda-jalilhttps://jlflitfest.org/bnw-speaker/rakhshanda-jalil

RBTC Delhi nominee. RANA SAFVI, Author & Columnist. Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

Rana Safvi is the author of ‘Where Stones Speak: Historical Trails in Mehrauli, the First City of Delhi’, ‘The Forgotten Cities of Delhi’ and ‘Tales from the Quran and Hadith’ and translator of Syed Ahmad Khan’s Asar us Sanadid and Zahir Dehlvi’s Dastan-e-Ghadar and City of my Heart.
Rana earned her Masters in medieval history from the Centre for Advanced Studies, Dept. of History, AMU. A firm believer in India’s ‘Ganga Jamuni Tehzeeb’, she is passionate about gaining and sharing knowledge via the social media platform. She is also deeply interested in Urdu and Urdu poetry.
Her blog is a repository of her writings on Indian culture, food, heritage and age-old traditions. She is the founder and moderator of the hashtag #Shair on Twitter, a forum that has revived popular interest in Urdu poetry in a major way.
Safvi is a columnist with The Hindu and Daily O and contributor to major newspapers and magazines.
Sources/References
https://ranasafvi.com/about-us/

RBTC Delhi nominee. BUSHRA ALVI RAZZACK. Poet & Author. Founder Delhi by Verse Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

Bushra Alvi Razzack – Founder of the poetry group, Delhi by Verse.
Bushra has compiled and edited Dilliwali: Celebrating the Woman of Delhi through Poetry (2018), an anthology by 94 poets. Her poems have featured in anthologies and online magazines, and her articles were published in Khaleej Times, Dawn, Rising Kashmir, among others. She just completed translating writer Manzoor Ahtesham’s Hindi novel, Basharat Manzil, into English, is translating Urdu writer Jeelani Bano’s short stories into English, and is working on her novel. Photography and old buildings are other fascinations.
References/Sources
https://www.newindianexpress.com/lifestyle/books/2020/mar/08/bushra-alvi-razzack-not-lost-in-translation-2113774.htmlhttps://www.differenttruths.com/author/bushra-a-r/

RBTC Delhi nominee. HUMA KHALIL. Writer, Film Maker. Editor Bazm-e-Urdu Magazine. Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

Huma Khalil, is an author, translator, film-maker and the editor of Bazm e Adab—an Urdu magazine in which women writers contribute from around the globe.
Huma regularly translates short stories, essays and articles from Urdu into English for several publications in India and abroad. Author of The Allure of Aligarh: A Poetic Journey into the University City, which is slated for release in January 2021, her earlier work, published in 2019, was the bestseller Many Summers Apart: Gems from Contemporary Urdu Literature, the transcreation from Urdu to English, her father Khalil ur Rahman Azmi’s seminal volume on the progressives, Urdu Mein Tarraqui Pasand Adabi Tehreek. It is a remarkable volume that consists of the most lustrous gems from the canon of Urdu poetry and prose that helped shape a nation. A member of the advisory board of Rekhta—the largest online website for Urdu language and literature—she has just released the much-acclaimed short film on the educational journey of Muslim women in India—Aligarian Women in Shahr-e-Tarab.
Presently writing and creating content for audiovisual media on the life of Urdu poets, Huma also runs a school ‘Kilkari’ for the education of under privileged children in New Delhi.

RBTC Delhi nominee. IFFAT ZARIM. Poet. Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

Dr. Iffat Zarrin, daughter of eminent poet Mushir Jhanjhanvi, was born on 10 oct 1958 in Delhi. She did her masters from the prestigious Fort William College, Kolkata and Ph.D from Delhi University.
Iffat's first collection of poetry "Be-Sahil Darya" was published in 2000. "Lucknow ka dabistan-e-sher", "Biswin sadi meinUrdu ghazal", and "Nau classical sho'ara" etc are her research based works
References/Sources
https://www.rekhta.org/poets/iffat-zarrin/profile

RBTC Delhi nominee. CHASMA FAROOQI. Urdu Poet and Writer. Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

Brief Description
References/Sources
https://www.rekhta.org/authors/chashma-farooqi/ebookshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcKt4uXwZ5Ahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQjpuPtpJHs

RBTC Delhi nominee. SABA BASHIR. Poet, Writer, Translator. Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

Saba Bashir's first book that got published was a collection of poems. Brought out by Writers Workshop in 2006, Memory-Past, kind of gave me confidence about my writing. My next book, I Swallowed the Moon: The Poetry of Gulzar was published in 2013, which was culled out from my PhD thesis. As they say, one thing leads to another – the PhD and later this book, led to the realization that I loved translating and by now, had had some research experience in Hindustani Cinema. This love and fascination in this new area of cinema, which I had just discovered led to my work on the Sanjeev Kumar and Suchitra Sen starrer, 1975 film Aandhi, as Gulzar’s Aandhi: Insights into the Film (2019). Along with various translation pieces that were coming out in different anthologies, my translation of Gulzar’s screenplays of Premchand’s Godaan, Nirmala and other Stories (2016) also got published. My interest in translation kept on increasing and then came the opportunity to translate Saadat Hasan Manto’s Shikari Auratien as Women of Prey.
References/Sources
https://www.shethepeople.tv/home-top-video/shikari-auratein-translation-manto-short-stories/

Creative Contributors to the Arts [ 9 nominees]

RBTC Delhi nominee. SABA DEWAN. Documentary Film Maker. Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

Saba Dewan is an Indian documentary film maker based in New Delhi. Her films are based on sexuality, gender, identity, communalism and culture. Her notable works include Dharmayuddha (Holy War, 1989), Nasoor (Festering Wound, 1991), Khel (The Play, 1994), Barf (Snow, 1997) and Sita's Family (2001). She is best known for her trilogy on stigmatized female performers, Delhi-Mumbai-Delhi (2006), Naach (The Dance, 2008) and The Other Song (2009).
Saba was born and brought up in New Delhi. She finished her schooling in 1982 and completed her Bachelors in History from St. Stephen's college, University of Delhi from 1982-1985.[3] She further received a master's degree in Mass Communications from the Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia.
References/Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saba_Dewanhttps://southasia.wisc.edu/2015-fall-lecture-series/saba-dewan/https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/bengaluru/2019/aug/26/tawaifs-had-reason-to-not-trust-me-2024191.html

RBTC Delhi nominee. YASMIN KIDWAI. Documentary Film Maker & Social Entrepreneur. Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

From making documentaries to starting her own business to contesting elections in Delhi, Yasmin Kidwai wishes to spark a spirited awakening in the lives she touches.
An acclaimed documentary filmmaker and founder of Springbox Films, she has produced over 50 documentaries highlighting women’s empowerment, reservation, old age issues, and tourism. Leading a far from sheltered life, Yasmin took up challenges on the go, be it her filmmaking, her entrepreneurial journey, or even something as simple as a subject at school that she struggled with.
References/Sources
https://yourstory.com/2017/05/yasmin-kidwai/amp

RBTC Delhi nominee. SABA HASAN. Contemporary Artist. Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

Saba Hasan a Masters in Social Anthropology is a noted contemporary artist with a multimedia repertoire developed over two decades of highly distinguished practice. Layered with undertones her voice reveals the forces of time, nature, social reality and personal histories in a potent, nuanced voice.
Saba's works have been exhibited at major venues like the 55th International Venice Biennale, the Met Breuer Museum New York, the National Gallery of Art Colombo, Fortezza Da Basso Florence, the Hohenburg Castle Salzburg, Assab One Milan, the Chelsea Film Festival New York, the Devi Museum of Contemporary Art and the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art.
She is a recipient of fellowships from Syracuse University, New York 1985; the George Keyt Art Foundation, 2002; the French Cultural Ministry, Paris 2006; the Oscar Kokoschka Academy, 2010 and the Raza National Award for painting 2005.
Saba has been a keen art educator conducting independent workshops and community art projects for Ecole D'Arts Visuels Lausanne, the Jamia University, Art 1st and Art Reach.
References/Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saba_Hasan

RBTC Delhi nominee. QAMAR DAGAR. Calligraphy Artist and Promoter. Nari Shakti Award (2017), Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

Brief DescriptionIn 2017, Dagar received the Nari Shakti Award -- the highest civilian honor for a woman in India.
References/Sourceshttps://www.cnn.com/travel/article/india-calligraphy-spc/index.html

RBTC Delhi nominee. KANZA FATIMA, Documentary Photographer. Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

Kanza Fatima is a documentary photographer based in Delhi, India. Born and brought up in the country’s capital, she is an indigenous photographer working over her own personal space and people. As a women photographer she tries to create images in concern with women issues, in and beyond my Muslim community. Kanza Fatima has worked with World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) over the DST Core Project and has helped in the curation of the Neel Dongre Grant’s Exhibition under the guidance of ace photographer Aditya Arya. She has exhibited her work in Kuala Lumpur Photo Festival Malaysia, Print Space Gallery London UK, IGNCA India, Jamini Roy Gallery India and Eyes on Main Street Wilson Outdoor Photo Festival 2018 based in North Carolina United States of America, etc.
Kanza has also been the recipient of the Foundry Photojournalism Workshop’s Scholarship 2018. Her work on the Shia women of Muharram has been published in Yahoo News, Photojournalism Now, Platform Magazine, and more.
References/Sources
http://www.addisfotofest.com/2018/participant/kanza-fatima/https://creativeinterruptions.com/meet-our-creative-interruptions-resident-artists/

RBTC Delhi nominee. FOUZIA DASTAGO. India's first female Dastagoi story telling artist. Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

Fouzia Dastango, as her name suggests, is an artist of the 16th century oral storytelling art, Dastangoi. Fauzia developed a deep interest in the field of arts and theatre since her early school days. She continued learning and participating in her school plays, but couldn’t pursue the art full time. Later, she got trained as an educator and worked several years, developing educational curriculum and supporting herself and the family. However, it took one performance in 2006 when she visited Dayal Singh College to watch a Dastangoi performance and she fell in love with this art form. She has dedicated, since, to learning and practicing this art form and quit her permanent job as a Lecturer at the State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) to pursue her passion of being a Dastango (story-teller) full time. In this process, she has also become India’s first female Dastango.
References/Sources
http://www.fouziadastango.com/Art Matters: Short stories on partition by NDTV:http://www.ndtv.com/video/news/news/art-matters-short-stories-on-partition-465142DastanGoi 2016 by Ghalib Institute:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv4IZbBT2bADastan-e-Gandhi DASTANGOI organized by Sarvodya International Trust and the India InternationalCentre (IIC) celebrate Gandhi Jayanti, 2016:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE65Fa4HKScFouzia Dastango recites in Delhi's Karkhandaari Zubaan:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J56_LKz8QcAFouzia - India's first female Dastango:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVzu1PrbIlgSaadat Hasan Mantos Afsanche (Short Stories): Fouzia Dastango in Urdu Studio with Manish Gupta:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n-H6AO9NLg

RBTC Delhi nominee. RANI KHANUM. Kathak Dancer and Choreographer. Founder Aamad Dance Centre for specially-abled artists. New Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

Rani Khanum, India’s renowned Kathak dancer and choreographer is one of the most sensitive and astute interpreters of Lucknow Gharana, She is the only Indian Muslim Kathak dancer of distinction who has danced on Islamic verses of mystic Sufi poets.
She has been honoured for her courageous and pioneering work with awards such as the 5th National Women Excellence Award in 2012; Asian Cultural Council Fellowship on “ World Dance and Islamic Culture”: The Government of India's: Fellowship and the India Foundation's award as outstanding Kathak dancer.
Rani is also the founder of Aamad Dance Centre, a dance institute for specially-abled artists, recognised by the Ministry of Culture has groomed and cultivated some of the finest Kathak dancers in India and abroad. She has promoted Indian classical dance amongst the youth through her lecture demonstrations & workshops throughout India in many educational institutions under the auspices of Spic Macay, I.C.C.R. Sangeet Natak Academy & IIRCC & abroad mainly in U.K, South Korea, Malaysia, Netherlands & USA.
References/Sources
http://www.ranikhanam.com/

RBTC Delhi nominee. NIDA MAHMOOD. Fashion Designer & Artist. Recognized as Queen of Kitsch. New Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

Nida Mahmood, a brand in itself is a self-taught artist and trained designer from NIFT. She is known to be the first designer who dared to drape sarees over jeans and bring people from the streets of India to the runway.
Ms. Mahmood has been awarded the ‘Most Creative Design collection’ in 2002. Over the years Nida has received many accolades for her outstanding contribution to the industry with her outlandish designs, adding elements of quirkiness to her garments.
Nida who has continued trailblazing concepts through the 7 fashion weeks has participated in, has managed to carve out a name for her as ‘The Queen of Kitsch. She is also a columnist and writes for various newspapers and websites apart from the traveling she does to keep enhancing her ‘bioscope’ of experiences in order to find new inspirations.
Nida graduated from St. Fidelis College, Lucknow, and got her training from the National Institute of Fashion, Delhi.
Sources/References
https://www.utsavpedia.com/fashion-cults/nida-mahmood-fashion-designer/https://www.nidamahmood.com/https://www.linkedin.com/company/nidamahmood/?originalSubdomain=in

RBTC Delhi Nominee. SHAHIDA CLAYTON , Fashion Designer & Founder of Shahida Perdes. Arizona. USA. Home Town: Delhi, India. Click side arrow for profile details. [For Global List]

Shahida, the founder and designer of SHAHIDA PARIDES, grew up in India. Her family taught her to follow her dreams - and follow them she did! Relying on her strong entrepreneurial spirit, she launched a manufacturing company. Shahida spent fifteen years successfully designing, manufacturing, and distributing private label dresses for major retailers. It was during this time in life where she met her future husband, fell in love, and moved to America and became a citizen. There she raised a family and continued to design and manufacture for retailers around the globe. In 2012, it was time for Shahida to launch her own dream. Her dream was a dream of creating clothing that strengthened women's desire to bring all their fairytales to life. It was a dream to have a collection that reinforced women's ability to walk in the world with pride and power. In a matter of just a few years, Shahida's talent and success has lead to her being featured in fashion shows around the world receiving international acclaim and now her line is placed in over 200 specialty boutiques. Her signature bright colors, custom prints and contemporary versions of the traditional kaftan and jumpsuits, thrust the wearer into fashion leadership.
Shahida was born in Old Delhi, a walled city within the city of Delhi, India. Old Delhi is a vibrant, crowded and busy place to live. My family’s home is smack in the center of the city, where people to buy textiles and fabrics. Literally street after street is lined with every textile imaginable. It’s a fashion designer’s dream brought to life.
When I was a little girl, I was fascinated by a local TV news anchor named Salma Sultan. I wanted to grow up to be just like her. She was incredibly chic and elegant, and I was captivated by her unique sense of style. I grew up in a conservative Muslim neighborhood within Old Delhi in India. Women worn hijabs in public, so that their heads were always covered in public for modesty. Salma’s signature look was big rose worn behind her ear, very similar to that of Billie Holiday. That so exotic and beautiful to me. I longed for the freedom to express myself through my style choices, like Salma did. She, in addition to my auntie’s influence, inspired me to pursue a career in fashion designer.
Links/References
https://www.shahidaparides.com/pages/about-ushttps://blackchalkmagazine.com/shahida-parides-from-delhi-with-love/https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/kyle-richards-and-fashion-designer-shahida-clayton-launch-new-collection-at-nyfw-300911232.html

RBTC Delhi nominee. SEHER HASHMI. Fashion Stylist & Self-taught Painter. Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

Seher Hashmi is a fashion stylist by profession. She is also a painter and writes poetry, despite not have any formal training in art. With determination to fight depression, assisted by psychiatrists, counsellors and her family, painting became a serious engagement for her. She has been dealing with mental health issues for over 8 years and having overcome major part of the problem she has started speaking about the ailment to remove the taboo around mental illness. She regularly does Facebook lives related to mental illness and has also started a support group for young people.
Seher is a fashion stylist and a self-taught artist. Painting has helped her overcome depression. Her solo painting exhibition ‘Colouring The Wounds Away’ reflects simple, soothing play of colours.
References/Sources
https://shespeaksworldywca.org/author/seher-hashmi/https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/flick-past/seher-hashmi-razas-solo-exhibition-with-simplified-forms

Making an impact through Media [ 16 nominees]

RBTC Delhi nominee. ARFA KHANUM SHERVANI, Journalist. Chameli Devi Jain Award for outstanding woman in Media. New Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

Arfa Khanum Sherwani is an award-winning journalist known for her coverage of Afghan elections. She has been in the news sector for the past 19 years and has contributed to Indian Journalism immensely. She is known to be the founding member of the Rajya Sabha TV and has worked with the NDTV. She was also associated with Bollywood Superstar Aamir Khan for his TV blockbuster ‘Satyamev Jayate’. She has participated in the ‘Global Media Forum Bonn, Germany, and has delivered TEDx lectures on fake news in India. At present Arfa holds the post of senior editor at the digital news portal, The Wire. Born and brought up in Bulandshahar, Uttar Pradesh Arfa completed her intermediate studies from Bulandshahr and obtained her graduation in B.Sc from Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut. She did her diploma in Journalism from Aligarh Muslim University and completed her doctoral studies from Jamia Millia Islamia.
Arfa has won many accolades for her work with Awards such as the Red Ink awards, Sahitya Samman Award, and the Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Women media person.
Sources/References
https://www.ledby.org/advisors-in-residence?pgid=kaxq49ft-94f58cbb-1774-4ce7-bc57-3ed9a2614f1ehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arfa_Khanum_Sherwanihttps://muckrack.com/arfa-khanum-sherwanihttps://www.linkedin.com/in/arfa-khanum-081a771b/?originalSubdomain=inhttps://thewire.in/media/arfa-khanum-sherwani-rohini-mohan-chameli-devi-award

RBTC Delhi nominee. SABA NAQVI. Author & Journalist. Adjunct faculty, O.P. Jindal Global University, Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

Saba Naqvi, Author, Journalist and Commentator, is one of India’s best known political analysts. She has published three books. In Good Faith, published in 2012, chronicles a two year long journey across India in search of syncretistic traditions and pluralist communities. It is the book closest to her heart. Capital Conquest, 2015, is about the emergence of AAP, the so called citizen’s party that now rules Delhi. Her third book, Shades of Saffron: from Vajpayee to Modi, released in June 2018, chronicles the journey of the BJP that Saba covered for two decades. It’s a firsthand account with the author as the primary source of news and information and has profiles of all the leading figures in the BJP’s ascent to power.

The former political editor of Outlook magazine, Saba writes columns in leading national dailies and websites. She is also an election analyst on television and a known political commentator.
Saba has been a Reuters fellow at Oxford University, a Jefferson Fellow at the East West Centre at Hawaii, has been selected for the Asia Leadership Fellow Award given by the Japan Foundation at Tokyo and the US State Department’s fellowship for leading professionals from across the world.

References/Sources
https://jgu.edu.in/jsjc/faculty/saba-naqvi/

RBTC Delhi nominee. BUSHRA KHANUM. TV Journalist, Anchor, Reporter Producer @Network 18. Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

TV Journalist (Anchor/Reporter/Producer)@Network 18. Earlier stints with DD,ETV,CNEB,Zee&Big Synergy
References/Sources
https://medium.com/@bushrakhanum86

RBTC Delhi nominee. SEEMA MUSTAFA. TV Journalist, Anchor, Reporter Producer @Network 18. Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

Seema Mustafa (born 20 April 1955) is an Indian print and television journalist. She is currently the Editor-in-Chief of The Citizen, a digital newspaper she founded.
Mustafa began her career in journalism with The Pioneer (a Lucknow-based newspaper), moved to The Patriot in 1979, and worked for several other Indian publications, including The Telegraph and Indian Express before joining the Asian Age in 1997 as its political editor and Delhi bureau chief.
After leaving the Asian Age in 2008, Mustafa worked as Resident Editor of Covert, a fortnightly left-wing political magazine. In 2010 Mustafa moved to NewsX, hosting a weekly interview programme named Straight Talk With Seema Mustafa on that channel. She served as National Affairs Editor of News X. She next took over the job of Director of a new, left-wing think-tank based in New Delhi named the "Centre for Policy Analysis", a position she presently holds. Concurrently, in January 2014, she founded The Citizen, an independent "Digital Daily" based out of New Delhi.
Mustafa is BA in Political Science from Lucknow University in Uttar Pradesh.

References/Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seema_Mustafa

RBTC Delhi nominee. MARYA SHAKIL. Journalist. Ramnath Goeka Excellence in Journalism Award. Home Town Bihar [RBTC Bihar]. Click side arrow for profile details.

Marya completed her masters in Mass communication from Jamia Millia Islamia in 2005.She did internship at Bennett Coleman and Co. Ltd. (Times Group) in 2004. Marya joined CNN-IBN (Network 18) in 2005. She did a 30 Minutes documentary on 2008 Bihar flood. Ahead of 2012 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, Marya’s 30-minute show, ‘The Muslim Manifesto’, documented the “layers of change” within the Muslim community.
Marya has won the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards as Best Political Journalist (Broadcast) in 2012 for her show on 2012 UP elections and then again in 2014^[ for her 2014 general elections coverage, including a documentary on Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
References/Sourceshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marya_Shakil

RBTC Delhi nominee. SEEMA CHISTI. Multimedia Journalist. ex-BBC, Indian Express and Author, Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

Seema Chishti has been a multimedia journalist since 1990, working in print, radio, and television in English and Hindi. She was Editor, Delhi with BBC (India) from 1996 to 2006. Prior to this, she worked with BBC World Service in London (1994-96) and in the television format at HTV (1990-93). Chishti has been a senior editor with The Indian Express (2006-2020) where she has published news reports, analysis on the marginalisation of minority communities, cultural change, youth, and on India’s major political developments. She broke news stories on the anti-corruption movement, on Indian judicial system, electoral politics, and on technology and politics, including state surveillance of citizens. Her endeavour to tease out, untie and then help interpret the many strands of change in a large and diverse country like India continues. She recently co-authored the book ‘Note by Note: The India Story (1947-2017)’, a history of independent India from 1947-2017 told alongside the sound of Hindi film music for each of the years.
References/Sources
http://www.nfi.org.in/seema-chishti

RBTC Delhi nominee. SAYEMA REHMAN. Radio Jockey, Radio Mirchi & You Tuber. Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

Sayema Rehman is popularly known as RJ Sayema. She is a very famous Radio Jockey i.e. RJ who works at Radio Mirchi 98.3 FM. Besides being an RJ, she is also a YouTuber and has her own Youtube Channel named RJ Sayema. Link to RJ Sayema Youtube Channel is provided in the last section of this page.
References/Sources
https://gulabigangofficial.in/rj-sayema/

RBTC Delhi nominee. FARAH KHAN. Senior Associate Producer and News Anchor @News18India, Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

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Senior Associate Producer and News Anchor @News18IndiaAccomplish reporter and anchor with more than six years of journalism experience. A passionate journalist with a background in investigative reporting. Highly expert in news anchoring, interviewing, field reporting, production, fact-checking. Received awards for outstanding performances in the fieldwork.
References/Sources
https://www.linkedin.com/in/farah-khan-6b856973/?originalSubdomain=in

RBTC Delhi nominee. HUMRA QURAISHI. Columnist and Writer. Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

Humra Quraishi is a Delhi -based writer, columnist and journalist . Her books include a book on the Kashmir Valley-Kashmir: The Untold Story; a volume of her collective writings-Views: Yours and Mine ; a short-story collection-More Bad Time Tales, a volume, Divine Legacy- Dagars & Dhrupad. With the late Khushwant Singh, she has co- authored The Good The Bad and The Ridiculous : Profiles, Absolute Khushwant, and a series of other writings. Her take on what it is like to be a singleton in today's turbulent times is part of the anthology Chasing the Good Life: On Being Single. And one of her essays, The State Can’t Snatch Away our Children is part of the anthology Of Mothers And Others. Her short stories have been published in several magazines and journals. Her debut novel Meer was launched in October 2015

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RBTC Delhi nominee. MARIYA SALIM. Journalist, Women's Rights, Al Jazeera News. Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

Mariya Salim is a Kolkata born Indian citizen with a degree in human rights law from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. She has been working in the development sector for eight years, with a special focus on women's rights.
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RBTC Delhi nominee. FATIMA MAHDI-KARAN. Business Broadcast Journalist. ex-Consulting Editor and Anchor Bloomberg TV India. New Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

Fatima Mahdi Karan is a Business Broadcast Journalist. She has been in the media sector for the past 16 years as a financial journalist. She has anchored business and lifestyle shows for Network 18 and prime-time weekend shows. and has worked with media companies such as CNN-IBN and Bloomberg TV India.
Fatima holds a graduation degree in Economics and International Relations from Boston University, USA, and has done her Masters in Diplomacy, Law, and Business. She had begun her career as a Banker in London and has worked for companies such as Barclays and UBP up until 2005.
When not at work, she pursues her interest in reading, sampling rude food, and contemporary Indian art. She is also a compulsive cleaner.
Sources/References
https://www.linkedin.com/in/fatima-mahdi-karan-6a74a552/?originalSubdomain=inhttps://www.nathealthindia.org/pdf/panelist18/7%20Valedictory%20session.pdfhttps://www.indianspeakerbureau.com/speaker_profile/Fatima-Mahdi-Karanhttps://www.news18.com/byline/fatima-karan.html

RBTC Delhi nominee. MAHA SIDDIQUI. Editor, Foreign Affairs & Anchor, CNN News 18 Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

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References/Sources
https://www.linkedin.com/in/maha-siddiqui-277b09b1/?originalSubdomain=in

RBTC Delhi nominee. SHEEBA ASLAM FEHMI. Journalist & Feminist Writer. Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

Sheeba Aslam Fehmi has edited a political monthly Headline Plus and has been the managing editor of a daily newspaper and a magazine. She has also written in major dailies and magazines. She has a regular column titled Gender Jihad since February 2009. This column is published monthly in "Hans"; a Hindi literary magazine.
Sheeba Aslam Fehmi is a feminist writer and journalist in India, and one of the Indian Muslim women scholars who write on Islam among other issues.
Sheeba Fehmi did her Master of Philosophy from the Centre for Political Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her thesis was on "Human Rights And Multiculturalism: A Study of Legal Cases Involving Muslim Women". Sheeba Fehmi is studying to be a Doctor of Philosophy at Jawaharlal Nehru University.
References/Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheeba_Aslam_Fehmi

RBTC Delhi nominee. NAGMA SAHAR. Senior Editor & Anchor NDTV. Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

Naghma Sahar is Senior Editor and Anchor with NDTV. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation (ORF). She tracks India’s neighbourhood — Pakistan and China — alongside other geopolitical developments in the region. Naghma hosts ORF’s weekly video series India’s World. A bilingual journalist, Naghma is proficient in English, Hindi and Urdu.
Naghma was a UGC JRF scholar, having specialised in rural development. She is an MPhil (focus on gender and nutrition) from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Earlier she obtained the degree of MA Geography from the Delhi School of Economics.

References/Sources
https://www.orfonline.org/people-expert/naghma-sahar/

RBTC Delhi nominee. NAZ ASGHAR. Founder Editor, India News Stream at India News Stream. Delhi. Add profile details.

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References/Sources
https://www.linkedin.com/in/naz-asghar-76ba0b6b/?originalSubdomain=in

RBTC Delhi nominee. SAIMI SATTAR. Independent Communication Consultant. Delhi. Add profile details.

Saimi Sattar is an independent communication consultant offering a bouquet of services including Content Writing, News Writing, Features Writing, Editing, Advertorials, Advertisement, Newsletters, Organising Seminars/Webinars, Social Media Content and Client Pitches.
A PG Diploma in Journalism in Mass Communication from Indian Institute of Mass Communication and two decades of experience across media houses including Mail Today, The Pioneer, The Telegraph and Hindustan Times.
References/Sources
https://www.linkedin.com/in/saimi-sattar-26b8a419/?originalSubdomain=in

Taking Entrepreneurship Forward [ 8 nominees]

RBTC Delhi nominee. SHAHNAZ HUSSAIN. Founder, Chairperson of The Shahnaz Husain Group. Padma Shri Award Recipient (2006). Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

Shahnaz Husain is the founder, chairperson & managing director of The Shahnaz Husain Group in India. She has received international acclaim for pioneering the Herbal beauty care movement and taking the Indian herbal heritage of Ayurveda worldwide. In 2006, she was awarded the prestigious Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award, by the Government of India for her contribution to the fields of trade and industry.
Shahnaz Husain was invited by Harvard Business School to speak on her success story of establishing an international brand without commercial advertising and has also become a Harvard Case Study which is included in its curriculum. She has also lectured to students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), University of Oxford and London School of Economics. Shahnaz has also represented India at President Barack Obama’s World Summit for Entrepreneurs. In 1996, she won Success Magazine's "World's Greatest Woman Entrepreneur" award. She has walked the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival and spoken at the House of Lords and House of Commons in the prestigious British Parliament.
References/Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahnaz_Husain

RBTC Delhi nominee. LAILA TYABJI. Social Entrepreneur, Crafts Activist. Co-Founder Dastkar, Padmashri Award Recipient (2012). Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

Laila Tyabji (born 2 May 1947) is an Indian social worker, designer, writer, and craft activist. She is one of the founders of Dastkar, a Delhi-based non governmental organization, working for the revival of traditional crafts in India.
Tyabji studied art at the Faculty of Fine Arts, MS University, Vadodara. Later, she went to Japan to study with Toshi Yoshida, the well-known Japanese printmaking artist, before returning to India to start a career as a freelance designer. Assignments included graphic and interior design, costumes and sets for the theatre, garments and textiles.
The difficulties of getting small rural artisans to benefit from and become a sustainable part of the mainstream retail chain gave Tyabji the idea of starting an organisation that would act as a bridge between craftspeople and urban buyers. This resulted in Tyabji co-founding Dastkar with five other women in 1981. The object was to give traditional craftspeople the design, product development, market information, and entrepreneurship training that would help them regain their place in the mainstream market. The Dastkari Bazaars, where craftspeople came directly to sell their own products in the Metro market, were both a sales opportunity and a learning place for craftspeople who had never previously encountered their urban customers. It was a novel idea at that time – much imitated since.
Over the last four decades, Dastkar and Tyabji have worked with numerous crafts organisations and NGOs to use craft skills as a means of earning and empowerment. She is credited with revolutionizing the craft industry in India by developing a market for Indian crafts, modernizing the artisans' skills, and acting as the liaising link between the artisans and the buyers.
In 2003, Tyabji was awarded the Aid to Artisans' Preservation of Craft Award, the first Asian and the second overall recipient of the award, the investiture ceremony taking place in New York. Later in 2012, the Government of India honored her with Padma Shri, the fourth–highest Indian civilian award. She is also a recipient of the NIFTLifetime Achievement Award and the Chishti Harmony Award. References/Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laila_Tyabji

RBTC Delhi nominee. NAGMA ABBASI, Founder and CEO of NextGen Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd. Awarded India's 500 CEO award and has been selected among India’s Inspirational leaders 2020. New Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

Nagma Abbasi is a Biotech professional and Founder and CEO of NextGen Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd. Dr. Nagma Abbasi’s career spans over a decade working with research institutes and leading companies in Life Science industry across various verticals like Product management, customer segmentation, brand management, and strategic marketing. One morning she received the news that her position was dissolved. However, this became her turning point in her life and she opted on the entrepreneurial voyage to establish NextGen, building on her knowledge of gaps and needs. NextGen Life Sciences since its inception in 2014 has captivated to be a single source of facility and to cater the research needs of scientists in the field of Molecular biology, Cell Biology, Immunology, Healthcare, Drug Development and more and help accelerate life sciences research. NextGen’s key achievements are consistent growth for the last five years in terms of revenue and profitability. NextGen has been featured and awarded as Entrepreneur of the Year in Trading Business MSMECCII Genentech Asia Awards 2020; Company of the year 2018 by The CEO Magazine; Top 20 Best Life Sciences Start-Ups by Silicon India Magazine. The company is collaborating with partners from USA, Europe, Singapore and other South East Asia countries for distribution, manufacturing and R&D, and initiating the freezer program, for quick, easy and local access to a comprehensive range of lab consumables. Dr. Abbasi attended IMT Ghaziabad, A.M.U., Aligarh and Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Delhi for her studies in Business Administration, Doctoral studies in Molecular Genetics and Post-Doc studies in Molecular Biology. Sources/References
https://www.theenterpriseworld.com/dr-nagma-abbasi-empowering-innovations-in-biotechnology/https://startup.siliconindia.com/vendor/nextgen-life-sciences-purchasing-convenience-and-comprehensive-services-for-life-science-industry-cid-6093.htmlhttps://theenterpriseworld.com/dr-nagma-abbasi-empowering-innovations-in-biotechnology/

RBTC Delhi nominee. NAZIRA MAHMOOD, Principal & Founder, Gods Grace School. New Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

Nazira Mahmood is the Principal of God’s Grace School and Secretary of God’s Grace Foundation.
Dr. Mahmood holds three honours degrees in English, Political Science, and Persian with a Master’s degree in English Literature. She did her doctoral studies from Aligarh Muslim University on the topic: ‘Female characters in Jane Austen’s Story’.
Nazira has years of experience in teaching in schools and colleges across Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, and overseas in Saudi Arabia. She was also the former Editor of the ‘Kahkashan’ magazine and Joint Editor of ‘The Aligarh Magazine’. She has anchored programs on Doordarshan and Etv and addressed National and International educational conferences across India, Europe, the USA, Gulf, and Pakistan. She has been honoured with ‘The Best Principal’s Award last year.
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http://godgraces.org/nazira-mahmood/

RBTC Delhi nominee. FATIMA KHANUM. Trustee and Owner of Naari Weo at Fatima Khanam Films, Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

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Trustee and Owner of Naari Weo at Fatima Khanam Films - New Delhi, Delhi, India

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/fatima-khanam-606a091b1/?originalSubdomain=in

RBTC Delhi nominee. NASREEN KHAN. Executive Coach, Facilitator, NLP Coach. Delhi. Add profile details.

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/nasreenkhan/?originalSubdomain=in

RBTC Delhi nominee. SAMINA KARIMI. Founder Zaika Dilli You Tube Channel. Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

An Internet-challenged scrap dealer’s wife has empowered herself and her family through her exotic recipes on YouTube
Samina Karimi, a mother of three and wife to scrap dealer Mohammad Khalid Karimi who struggles to make ends meet, is the face behind the very popular YouTube channel Zaika Dilli 6. Apart from tending to her daily household chores, 42-year-old Samina has created 400 cooking videos for her YouTube channel, wherein using her traditional wisdom and heavy Old Delhi dialect, she step by step explains the process of cooking Mughlai delicacies. A year old journey on YouTube has garnered her a following of nearly three lakh and has etched out a new source of income for her family. In an attempt to juggle her religious beliefs, orthodox taboos and her humane aspirations, Samina has refrained from showing her face in the videos—it is only her voice and hands that the viewers identify her with.
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https://www.newindianexpress.com/thesundaystandard/2017/oct/29/a-secret-superstar-in-old-delhi-1685773.html

RBTC Delhi nominee. PERNIA QURESHI. Founder Pernia's Pop Up Shop. Stylist Harpers Bazaar, Elle. Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

Pernia launched an e-commerce website, Pernia's Pop-Up Shop, in 2012. The site offers India's premier designers to a global clientele. Her e-commerce venture was created by Digital Impressions based in Delhi perception NCR, India. Pernia's Pop-Up Shop was acquired by Purple Style Labs in 2019. Pernia has worked as a stylist for Harper's Bazaar, Elle and Conde Nast; and designed costumes for the Bollywood film Aisha

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pernia_Qureshi

RBTC Delhi nominee. SABINA REHMAN. Founder Abnoos Creations. Delhi. Add profile details and photo.

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https://www.facebook.com/aabnooscouture/?ti=ashttps://instagram.com/aabnoos_couture?utm_medium=copy_link

Professionals in Law and Medicine [ 12 nominees]

RBTC Delhi nominee. RANA PARVEEN SIDDIQUI. Advocate. First Woman Chairperson pf the Bar Council of Delhi in 2021. Delhi.

Bar Council of Delhi announced the election results and unanimously elected Ms. Rana Parween Siddiqui as the First lady Chair Person of Bar Council of Delhi on 26.05.2012.

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https://nicelocal.in/delhi/law/advocate_rana_parveen_siddiqui/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h77IVZZYeAk
https://delhibarcouncil.com/uncategorized/bcd-elections/

RBTC Delhi nominee. NOOR FATIMA. Partner Roshni Noor & Associates Law Firm. Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

Mrs. Noor Fatima has an experience of more than 35+ years in this field leading to some memorable achievements. She has dealt with complex and tricky matters which added a lot of feathers in her cap. Her expertise lies in Criminal, POSCO, Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substance Matters, Matters of Gangster Act, Matrimonial Matters.
Her achievements include:
1. Appointed as a member of sexual harassment committee by District Judge Varanasi constituted in compliance of the order passed by the hon’ble Supreme Court of India in writ petition(Crl 113 of 2018) tittles “afshan pracha” versus Union of India .2. Awarded as the best lawyer by hon’ble Justice Shri Ashok Bhushan ji of Supreme Court.3. Honoured as the exceptional lawyer by hon’ble Justice Shri Om Prakash ji (2017).4. Awarded as the best women lawyer in Nari Jagran Adornment, Varanasi (2015).5. Awarded as best lawyer in Empowering the Nation (2010).
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http://www.roshninoorandassociates.com/professionals/

RBTC Delhi nominee. MIRIAM FOZIA RAHMAN, Advocate at the Supreme Court of India, Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

Miriam Fozia Rahman is an advocate practicing before the Supreme Court of India and various High Courts for over 15 years. Ms. Rahman obtained B.A.LL.B. Honors degree from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh in the year 2004.
Fozia combines the unique background, training and experiences of a legal practitioner, a research academic, and a policy advisor and has worked in the fields of human rights, refugee law & international law, as a Social Justice Lawyer. She also worked as a Senior Legal Editor for LexisNexis Butterworths, India where she carried out legal research and editing of different Law books; journals and magazines. She has trained on team management, personal planning; virtual Intelligence including handling projects regarding building & development of legal research databases.
She has worked as deputy director for Public Interest Legal Support and Research Center which was the legal implementing partner for United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees, UNHCR India. She has also worked as a legal advisor and advocate and appeared in several constitutional, administrative, civil, corporate and family law cases before the Supreme Court, High Court and District Courts. There are several reported judgments of the Supreme Court/High Court wherein she has appeared/argued/assisted.
Fozia has vast and extensive experience of working around issues of social justice, non-governmental organizations, human rights institutions and others. She also routinely serves a formal and informal advisor to various government departments, regulatory institutes, research centers and think-tanks. She has worked to provide credible legal research, strategic interventions and theoretical analyses for public interest litigations and social action campaigns, justice sector reforms with a particular focus on the mediation & conciliation with a particular focus on the judiciary and the courts in India.
Apart from her commitment to the legal practice Ms. Rahman is committed to the cause of women, children and other sections of societies which are underprivileged and disadvantaged. She has undertaken Projects for highest government body constituted to work on the rights of Women in India, organized presentations, seminars and conferences and at National level. She also has been associated with Non-Profits of national/international repute and conducted workshops and skill building sessions on legal aspect of their work. She has done extensive work on women and violence both in and outside of the Court Rooms. She has been working with Companies/organizations on implementation of law relating to prevention of Sexual Harassment at workplace by helping draft their policy, set up the compliance structure, conduct inquiries. She conducts regular workshops for gender sensitization and building awareness in management and employees on the law relating to SHW.
Fozia serves as the external member on the Internal Complaints Committee of reputed companies and organization. Fozia while perusing her passion for social change has organized as well participated as speaker and researcher in various International Seminars and Conferences; dealing with different issues and creating awareness among the general masses building a bridge between eminent Jurists and the common man. She is a regular participant in regional and international academic conferences and seminars and is also a frequent speaker and trainer in her areas of expertise for a variety of local legal and non-legal audiences. She is keen of disseminating the legal knowledge and awareness in the country for the betterment and upliftment of the society and the country with a strong desire to contribute and add value to the justice system in India
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/miriam-fozia-rahman/?originalSubdomain=in

RBTC Delhi nominee. SHRAMSHAVISH REIN. Advocate, Arbitrator, Commercial Mediator, Conciliator, Amicus Curiae in Supreme Court of India, Ex-Joint Treasurer Supreme Court Bar Association of India & Partner at Aeltemesh Rein & Co. Law. Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

Advocate, Arbitrator, Commercial Mediator, Conciliator, Amicus Curiae in Supreme Court of India, Ex-Joint Treasurer Supreme Court Bar Association of India & Partner at Aeltemesh Rein & Co. Law
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/shamshravish-rein-9a911b4b/?originalSubdomain=in

RBTC Delhi nominee. ROSHNI MURAD. Lawyer at Supreme Court. Partner at Roshni Noor & Associates Law Firm. Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

Roshni Murad is an MBA LL.B with a diverse knowledge and experience. She represents in all the courts at all levels. She has been a dynamic lawyer when it comes to handling the matters. Her expertise lies in Criminal and Matrimonial cases.
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/roshni-murad-88119852/?originalSubdomain=in

RBTC Delhi nominee. MUSHARRAF RAO. Lawyer. Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

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https://www.facebook.com/musharraf.raohttps://www.linkedin.com/in/musharraf-rao-52b09ba/?originalSubdomain=in

RBTC Delhi nominee. AQSA SHIEKH, Medical Doctor, Author. Founder Human Solidarity Foundation. New Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

Dr. Aqsa Sheikh is a Delhi medical doctor and community medicine specialist and an Associate professor of Community Medicine at Hamdard, Institute of Medical Sciences and Research. She is the author of ‘The Taste of Tears’ and is a blogger for Times of India, Youth Ki Awaaz, Women’s Web, and Newz hook. She is also the founder- Director of Meezan Commercial Enterprises and Human Solidarity Foundation.
Born and brought up in Mumbai, Aqsa completed her education at Seth GS medical college. She has worked at HLFPPT, a government-approved NGO. She writes extensively on the challenges faced by the Transgender Community in India and is determined over raising awareness on Mental health issues amongst vulnerable groups like students, LGBTQIA+ community.
She was awarded for the best article on Mental Health and is a recipient of the Himalayan Green Awards for her services in the Health education sector. Aqsa is also a poet who writes in English, Hindi, and Urdu.
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https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/author/dr-aqsa-shaikh/https://muckrack.com/aqsashaikh/biohttps://www.youthkiawaaz.com/author/zakirhusain_shaikh/https://www.womensweb.in/author/aqsa-shaikh/

RBTC Delhi nominee. RESHMA YASMIN. Clinical Psychologist. Mental Health Advocate. Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

Ms Reshma Yasmin is a qualified Clinical Psychologist who is voluntarily working for upkeep of mental health of underprivileged children in Delhi. This is the field in which there are not many people even aware of their mental health status or need of such help. She is helping children to hold on to their inner strength, motivate to perform better, keep away from ills of the society and become a better human being.
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RBTC Delhi nominee. FARAH HUSSAIN. Medical Doctor, Specialist in Anesthesia, Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Hospital. COVID Vaccine Advocate. Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

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Among the finest Anesthesiologists in the city, Dr. Farah Hussain (Lok Nayak Hospital) in Darya Ganj, Delhi is known for offering excellent patient care. The clinic is located centrally in Darya Ganj, a prominent locality in the city.
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https://twitter.com/unicefindia/status/1399250671522574339?s=21https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vEbKMj9fQMhttps://www.justdial.com/Delhi/Dr-Farah-Hussain-Lok-Nayak-Hospital-Near-Delhi-Gate-Darya-Ganj/011PXX11-XX11-170701070319-S7E4_BZDET

RBTC Delhi nominee. SAHAR QUREISHI. Medical Superintendent at Max Super Speciality and Research Centre. Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

Medical Superintendent at MAX SUPER SPECIALITY HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH CENTER PRIVATE LIMITED
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/sahar-qureshi-b5920416b/?originalSubdomain=in

RBTC Delhi nominee. GHAZALA JAVED, Scientist, Central Council for Research on Unani Medicine. Ministry of AYUSH, Government of India. New Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

Ghazala Javed is a Level IV Research Officer Scientist at Central Council for Research on Unani Medicine. She has been working for the past 8 years as a government servant under the Ministry of AYUSH and has worked closely in the International Cooperation sector and has contributed to the globalization of AYUSH systems.
Ghazala has done her graduation and post-graduation in Unani medicine and has been awarded Gold Medals and Certificate of Merit for her excellence. She is a proud Alumni of Jamia Hamdard and holds an excellent academic record. She has also done a PG certificate course in Hospital Management from the National Institute of Health and Family Welfare and is a diploma holder in Intellectual Property Rights. She has availed WHO fellowship in Managing Public Health Programs and has also done her long-term training in Bioethics.
She has been featured as ‘The Face of Unani’ in the book ‘India’s Most Powerful Women’ by Ms. Prem Ahluwalia. She was also a special invitee to interact with President Obama and Michelle Obama. Ghazala has also been awarded the ‘Make in India Award’ for her brilliant contribution in the field of Unani Medicine.
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https://www.almashines.com/sum/f/celebrating-womens-day-with-some-inspiring-stories-of-women-alumni-1705?shared=21591&utm_source=Campusfeed&utm_campaign=Campusfeed-individual-Sharing&utm_medium=Any%20Social%20Network

RBTC Delhi nominee. NILOFER IZHAR. Senior Research Fellow (Principle Investigator, Medical Pluralism) at Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) New Delhi). add profile details.

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/nilofar-izhar-2bb05883/?originalSubdomain=in

Leadership in Governance & Administration [ 5 nominees]

RBTC Delhi nominee. RASHIDA HUSSAIN. Indian Revenue Service (1978). ex-Joint Secretary and Additional Secretary in the Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

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RBTC Delhi nominee. NAZLI JAFRI SHAYIN. Indian Audit and Accounts Service (1999) Joint Secretary. Ministry of Defence. New Delhi

Ms Nazli Jafri Shayin IA&AS (Indian Audit & Accounts Service) has been empanelled for holding the post of Joint Secretary or equivalent at Government of India.
Nazli Jafri Shayin, an IA&AS officer, has been posted as joint secretary in Defence ministry. Ms. Nazli Jafri Shayin Ms. Nazli Jafri Shayin mam is 1999 batch IA&AS officer presently posted as PD, GASAB-II, CAG office New Delhi. She has done B.A. and M.B.A. from Aligarh Muslim University. She has long career in the department spanning over 15 years. Madam is having a rich and vast experience of working in the fields of Accounts and Entitlement, State Audit, Administration, etc. Under foreign assignment, Madam, had also served at Audit of UNJSPF AT NEW YORK, External Audit of WFP Compliance Audit
References/Linkshttps://www.indianbureaucracy.com/nazli-jafri-shayin-iaas-empanelled-as-joint-secretary-goi/

RBTC Delhi nominee. NAJMA AKHTAR. Academic Administrator. First woman Vice Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia University. Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

Najma Akhtar (born 1953) is an academic administrator. Since April 2019, she has been the Vice Chancellor of the Jamia Millia Islamia, an Indian university. She is the first woman to hold the post.
Before her appointment as Vice Chancellor, Akhtar worked for fifteen years at the National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration, leading training courses for senior officials from 130 countries. Earlier, she established the first state-level educational management institute in Uttar Pradesh at Allahabad and was the Controller of Examination and Director of Academic Programs at Aligarh Muslim University. She has been a consultant to UNESCO, UNICEF and DANIDA.
Akhtar earned her Master’s degree in Botany from Aligarh Muslim University, where she was a gold medalist. She has a PhD in Education from Kurukshetra University. She received a Commonwealth Fellowship to study University administration at the University of Warwick in the UK and also trained at the Institute for European Environmental Policy in Paris.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Najma_Akhtar_(academic)

RBTC Delhi nominee. ZOYA ALI RIZVI. Deputy Commissioner at National Health Mission, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Govt of India, Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

Deputy Commissioner at National Health Mission, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Govt of India
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-zoya-ali-rizvi-2b05931b0/?originalSubdomain=in

RBTC Delhi nominee. HALEEMA SADIA. Principal, Deputy Director of Education, Delhi Waqf Board. New Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details

Haleema Sadia is a skilled and versatile educationist, philanthropist. She is currently serving as the Deputy Director of Education in the Delhi Waqf Board where she is in charge of developing strategic plans of schools for underprivileged children, organizing teacher training programs, and building staff capacity programs. with a proven track record of two decades. She has been a Headmistress and Senior Teacher at Hamdard Public School, Delhi. She is the founding principal of the Delhi Public School in Ajman, UAE, and has also served as a Principal to India International School, Sharjah, and a senior teacher and headmistress at Hamdard Public School, Delhi.
Haleema is a Ph.D. holder in Philosophy from Hamdard University, Delhi, and has a double doctorate and a double master’s in Islamic studies and Management Studies and English and Arabic literature respectively. Sadia is also the chairperson for SAET (Shawkat Ara Educational Trust) and is the founder of Jahan-e-Mann, a youtube channel that beliefs in motivating people to help them realize their potentials and let them be the best version of themselves.
She is the recipient of many awards in the field of education and a member of many educational, social, and welfare organizations including “ Age care India, IICC, TERA, WGC, Nexus of Good, AIEM among others.
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-haleema-sadia-bb58112b/?originalSubdomain=in

Change Makers in Social Development [ 11 nominees]

RBTC Delhi nominee. SHABNAM HASHMI. Social Activist & Human Rights Campaigner. Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

Shabnam Hashmi (born 1957[1]) is an social activist and human rights campaigner. She started her social activism campaigning about adult literacy in 1981. Since 1989 she has spent most of her time in combating communal and fundamentalist forces in India. After the Gujarat riots of 2002, Hashmi changed her focus to grass roots work and has spent a considerable amount of time in Gujarat. In 2003 she was one of the founders of ANHAD (Act Now for Harmony and Democracy),[2] which she administers.[3] it's FCRA license was cancelled based on inputs from intelligence agency for using foreign funding to work against the public interest. She also works in Kashmir, Bihar and Mewat area of Haryana.
She has campaigned against communalism and violation of human rights in the name of fighting terrorism. She was involved in exposing what she alleges are terror links of Hindutva forces but also fought for the rights of Batla house encounter suspect who later allegedly joined ISIS. Shabnam Hashmi was amongst ninety-one women from India who figured in the list of 1,000 women who have been nominated globally for the Nobel Peace Prize-2005.
Hashmi has focused on issues of women's political participation, adoption,[6] gender justice, democracy and secularism. She was awarded the Association for Communal Harmony in Asia (ACHA) Star Award for Communal Harmony in 2005, Aamil Smriti Samman in 2005 and the National Minority Rights Award 2008 by the National Minority Commission.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabnam_Hashmi

RBTC Delhi nominee. BILKIS BANO. Protest Leader. Voice of the Marginalized. BBC 100 Influential Women ( 2020). Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

Bilkis Bano, the octogenarian, was ranked worldwide among the BBC 100 most influential Women for 2020. Bilkis was among several other elderly women who came to be known as Dadis of Shaheen Bagh as they emerged as a strong voice of the anti- Citizenship Amendment Act ( CAA) protests. Bilkis gave hope and strength to activists and student leaders as a crackdown was launched against those protesting the new citizenship act. The Shaheen Bagh protests sparked a national revolution, inspiring many women-led protests across India, from Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore, to Chennai.
Bilkis, along with thousands of women who joined her, braved the chilling cold of January from 8 in the morning to midnight to protests the CAA, became the symbol of resistance. "I will sit here till blood stops flowing in my veins so the children of this country and the world breathe the air of justice and equality," she said.
82-year-old Bilkis has been introduced on the BBC list as a “Protest Leader,” as “part of a group of women who peacefully protested against a controversial citizenship law,” describing her as the “the face of a long-running protest at the capital’s Shaheen Bagh, the Muslim locality where the protests were held.” Bilkis, though grateful, had responded to her TIME recognition saying, “I would have been much happier had our demand been fulfilled, had the government listened to us and given us what we wanted.”
The fact that women spearheaded the protests in Shaheen Bagh has countered many stereotypes around the Muslim women. The active participation of Muslim women in the anti-CAA protests was the defining feature of this movement. It shattered many stereotypes about Muslim women. It put paid to the pervasive belief that the average Indian Muslim woman is an uneducated and burqa-clad figure who has no voice and is suffering under patriarchal oppression.
References/Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoIo7hAMAEshttps://www.news18.com/news/buzz/shaheen-bagh-dadi-among-times-100-most-influential-people-heres-why-shes-known-as-symbol-of-resistance-2901375.htmlhttps://www.shethepeople.tv/news/shaheen-baghs-bilkis-dadi-on-bbcs-100-women-of-2020-list/

RBTC Delhi nominee. SYEDA SYEDAIN HAMEED. Social & Women’s Rights Activist. Former Member Planning Commission and National Commission for Women. Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

Syeda Saiyidain Hameed (born 1943) is an Indian social and women's rights activist, educationist, writer and a former member of the Planning Commission of India. She is the founder trustee of the Women’s Initiative for Peace in South Asia(WIPSA) and the Centre for Dialogue and Reconciliation and a former member of the National Commission for Women (1997–2000). She served the Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU) as its chancellor till January 2015. The Government of India awarded her the fourth highest civilian honor of the Padma Shri, in 2007, for her contributions to Indian society.
Presently, she sits on the Boards of Indian Institute of Dalit Studies, Janvikas, and Sahr Waru-Women's Action and Resource Unit, Population Foundation of India, Swami Shradhanand Memorial Institute, Centre for Women's Development Studies, Action Aid (India) and Global Trustee of South Asia Foundation (SAF). She chairs the National Foundation of India, Khwaja Ahmed Abbas Memorial Trust, Faiz Centre (India) and also co-chairs Hali Panipati Trust.
She received her schooling at Modern School, New Delhi, and her college education was at Miranda House, University of Delhi from where she passed BA (Hons) in 1963. She secured a master's degree (MA) from the University of Hawaii in 1965 and a doctoral degree (PhD) from the University of Alberta in 1972.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syeda_Saiyidain_Hameed

RBTC Delhi nominee. SYEDA BILGRAMI IMAM. Social Activist & Author. ex-Member National Commission for Minorities (2010-2013) Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

Syeda Bilgrami Imam was born into a Muslim family in 1941 at Hyderabad, India. Her father was a magistrate of the Andhra Pradesh High Court. At the age of 15, her family relocated to Mumbai. She completed Honours degree (B.A (Hons.)) in English literature from the Elphinstone College, standing first in the Bombay University. Soon after her graduation she was appointed the "Fellow of English Literature" at Bombay University, where she taught B.A (Honours) for two years. Being more creative, she went on to become a full-fledged professional in advertising and led the creative crew for the New York based JWT and Contract, a subsidiary of WPP plc in various cities across India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. She represented India at the "International fora on creativity", and at the "U.S Muslim World Conference" held at Doha.
Ms. Imam became a member of the National Commission for Minorities, India in 2010 before her term expired in January 2013. During her tenure she was the only woman member of the NCM. Imam is also a well-known writer. Her book named The Untold Charminar—published by Penguin Books in 2008—deals with the culture of Hyderabad. Historian William Dalrymple, Indian filmmakers Shyam Benegal and Nagesh Kukunoor were other contributors. Imam has also authored other books such as The Positive Side (published by Roli Books, ISBN 978-1-4567-4186-0), The Making of Advertising: Gleanings from Subhas Ghosal (published by Macmillans, ISBN 978-0-333-93916-1) and Editing of Epiphany II and III.
As of 2012, Imam resides in New Delhi.
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https://peoplepill.com/people/syeda-bilgrami-imam/

RBTC Delhi nominee. SHAHNAZ KHAN. Researcher, Educator & Advocate Citizens Against Hate, Tedx Speaker. Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

Shahnaaz Khan studies identities and how they shape conflicts in the world. Her research has involved studying the Indo-Chinese community in West Bengal and their experience of the Indo-China war 1962. She has also worked with victims and survivors of hate crimes and identity based violence in India, comparing and researching such violence in India with other South Asian nations. Her research spans four years looking at the effect entrenched identities have on our social and political fabric.
She has also worked with victims of identity based violence the past year towards documenting cases from across India. As part of a collective ‘Citizens Against Hate’ while working with Misaal, Centre for Equity Studies, she met many families who had lost a loved one to hate crimes, taking their stories forward for advocacy, as well as helping the families with relief, rehabilitation and legal representation.
She is currently working with the Shiv Nadar Schools in Noida as an educator. After looking at the effect of entrenched identities and their violent repercussions she hopes to use education towards peace. Bringing the ground realities to the classroom and working towards better curriculum and pedagogy when teaching conflicts to students, so their sense of self and other identity, both real and perceived, reflect real world complexities and non-binaries.
Shahnaz has a Masters in Conflict Analysis and Peace Building from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.
References/Sources
https://tedxgateway.com/portfolio/shahnaaz-khan/https://www.ted.com/talks/shahnaaz_khan_killed_by_hate_how_hate_crimes_attack_identities

RBTC Delhi nominee. FARAH ZAHIR. Senior Economist, The World Bank. Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

Add Brief DescriptionSpecialization: Public Finance, Macroeconomics, Finance, Growth and Fiscal Federalism.
References/Sourceshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/farah-zahir-22516120/?originalSubdomain=in

RBTC Delhi nominee. HUMA MASOOD. Program Officer, Gender & Education. UNESCO, Delhi. Delhi. Add profile details.

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PhD International Relations, Education and Gender. JNU, Delhi.
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/huma-masood-517a4a10/?originalSubdomain=in

RBTC Delhi nominee. NABILA JAMSHED. Public Policy Specialist, United Nations, India. Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

Nabila Jamshed is an international security and global governance professional currently working with the United Nations. Her assignments with the inter-governmental sector have included Public Policy Specialist with the United Nations Resident Coordinator’s Office in India, Political Affairs Specialist with the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague during the chemical weapons crisis of Syria, and analyst with the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in South Sudan during the war of 2016.
With a master’s degree in Global Governance and Diplomacy from the University of Oxford, Nabila joined the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons during the organisation’s work on chemical disarmament in Syria, for which it was later awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
She was then posted to an assignment with UN Peacekeeping, to Juba, South Sudan, consistently ranked one of the most dangerous conflicts in the world, where she worked with the Joint Mission Analysis Centre during the conflict of 2016, on security and crisis reporting and analysis.
She has also worked for the United Nations Educational, Cultural, and Scientific Organisation, and with the Asian Development Bank on regional cooperation in South Asia. While with the UN, she co-authored the UN Environment Programme and UNU’s Inclusive Wealth Report for 2014.
She has delivered seven TEDx and Hague Talks and delivered lectures on multilateralism in Geneva (including at the Weapons Governance Forum with), The Hague, and at premier institutions including the University of Oxford, University of Leiden, IIT Delhi, IIT Kanpur and Delhi University.
Nabila is also the author of the fantasy novel Wish Upon A Time - The Legendary Scimitar.
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https://www.wef.org.in/nabila-jamshed/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabila_Jamshed

RBTC Delhi nominee. NAZIA IRUM, Media and Advocacy Consultant at Amnesty International India, Author, TedX Speaker. New Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

Nazia Erum is a media and Advocacy consultant at Amnesty International India and the author of the critically acclaimed book ‘Mothering a Muslim’.
Ms. Erum holds an honours degree in Journalism and has done her Master’s from Jamia Millia Islamia in Media Governance. Nazia, with three books to her name, creates an environment for effective policy, programme, and legislation with her storytelling style. She writes on gender, inter-faith, and politics voicing the under-represented and under-reported. She has led the communications at Global Fund and also led projects for development organizations including the UNDP.
Nazia is an Australia India Youth Dialogue alum for 2020 and is an advisor at LED by Her Fellowship. She has been listed under the 2018 Stand Out Voices: Telegraph, the 2018 Women Change Makers: Mid-Day, Best Global Media Engagement Awards 2020 by Amnesty International, Women’s Day Award by IUCNR for her work as an author, and the Orange Flower Award for the Best Blogger. She was also listed under Best of Non-fiction 2018; Spectacular Debuts 2018 by Times of India and Best of Women authors 2018 by She the People. Nazia has remained as a panelist at India-UK women Leadership Summit, British Council and has been a TEDx speaker at TEDx Gurgaon on Confronting our Conditioning.
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https://www.ledby.org/advisors-in-residence?pgid=kaxq49ft-d63969a1-1ea8-4151-8331-f91e4a77cef3https://www.aiyd.org/aiyd-2020/delegates-2020/nazia-erum/http://naziaerum.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/naziaerum/?originalSubdomain=in

RBTC Delhi nominee. MARIAM SIDDIQUI. Public Health Specialist. RTI International, India Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

Mariam Siddiqui is a senior public health researcher at RTI International, India. She holds a BA in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology from the University of Colorado, Boulder and, an MPH in Epidemiology and Global Health from the Mailman School or Public Health, Columbia University. Prior to joining RTI, Ms. Siddiqui was working at the Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University. She has more than eight years of professional public health work experience in managing vaccine, infectious diseases, maternal & child health, cancer prevention, gender and communication science related projects. In these positions she has contributed towards coordinating multisite projects, communicating with key study personnel, monitoring implementation of timelines, budget, milestones and deliverables. Ms. Siddiqui has experience in writing research proposals for securing funding (US federal agencies and international foundations), designing and implementing studies, and analyzing quantitative and qualitative data. Moreover, Ms. Siddiqui has experience in working with Institutional Review Boards to ensure regulatory requirements are fulfilled and research is in compliance with guidance governing research with human subjects.
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariam-siddiqui-84328142/?originalSubdomain=in

RBTC Delhi nominee. AMINA SHERWANI. Actor, Producer, Environmental Activist. New Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

Amina Shervani born on 23rd December 1968, in Mumbai, is an Indian TV producer, a former actress, environmental activist and a budding politician, member of the Aam Aadmi Party. Amina Shervani played the role of ‘Kiran Kochhar’, love interest of Rakesh Sharma’s character Major Vikram Rai in the Indian television drama series called ‘Fauji’ that was aired in 1989 on Doordarshan, which launched the acting career of superstar Shahrukh Khan.
33 years of work experience in the communications industry including theatre, news, copy, serials, scripts, films and websites.I am a founder member of Saakshi Kala Manch which has produced and presented more than a 100 theatre productions since 1985 in Hindi,Urdu,Punjabi,English and Sanskrit. In 1987,I co-produced,wrote and directed Fauji one of the most successful television serials.I am an activist for women's rights and have produced reports on female foeticide , physical abuse of women, the marriage market, prostitution & environmental issues such as water management, conservation and many others including hardcore political stories for the first video news magazine in Hindustani, Kalchakra
In 1993 I set up Nishan Communications which has produced more than 400 Corporate Films, Presentations, Exhibitions, Websites for leading names in the public and private sector such as the Defence Reasearch And Development Organisation (DRDO), The Krishak Bharati Cooperative (KRIBHCO), Airports Authority of India, JJ Valaya, Fertiliser association of India, Govt. of Haryana, Hero Honda, The Jaypee Group, BHEL, Indian Airlines and many more…
Currently I head the environment and infrastructure committee of the Manesar Industries Welfare Association (MIWA ).I have made many trips to the backward Mewat region of Haryana since 1993 and spoken in many public meetings to spread the message of the importance of education, especially among women and minority communities.
Specialties: I helped the rural communities in 10 villages around the industrial area of Manesar to get together and form the Fertile Land Protection Movement to save their land from acquisition. We filed a Public Interest Litigation in the Supreme Court of India and have obtained a stay order .We then launched Project Vanya : where a 100,000 trees are being planted on 250 acres of the 6000 acres of land that were saved from acquisition to create a green lung and conserve and harvest rain water.

Strides in Private/Corporate Sector [3 nominees]

RBTC Delhi nominee. NIDA HASAN. Country Head at Change.Org. Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/nida-hasan-6abb141b/?originalSubdomain=in

RBTC Delhi nominee. AAFREEN AYUB. Editor, Taylor and Frances Private Limited. Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/aafreen-ayub-645b34105/?originalSubdomain=in

RBTC Delhi nominee. QUDSIYA AHMED. Head of Publishing-Academic at Cambridge University Press. Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

Qudsiya Ahmed is responsible for the India publishing programme in social sciences, and science and technology. I also commission and acquire academic monographs and course books in politics, sociology, history, and economics and management. My books offer cutting-edge research on the political, cultural and sociological landscape of South Asia, with a strong focus on subjects that look at the multifaceted nature of the subcontinent through various interdisciplinary approaches. The list is useful for academic researchers, post graduate students and practitioners.
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https://www.cambridge.org/authorhub/editors/qudsiya-ahmed
https://www.linkedin.com/in/qudsiya-ahmed-83796414/

RBTC Delhi nominee. SADIA SYED. International Baccalaureate Mathematics Faculty at the American Embassy School - New Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details.

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/sadia-syed-54771213/detail/recent-activity/

Inspirations from Politics [3 nominees ]

RBTC Delhi nominee. SHAMA MOHAMED. Politician. National Spokesperson Indian National Congress. Delhi. Home State: Kerala. Click side arrow for profile details.

Dr. Shama Mohamed is a Politician and National Spokesperson of the Indian National Congress. A Dentist by profession, she is a champion of several social causes and is the Trustee of the Zoya Charitable Trust, an NGO which works for the underprivileged in society, irrespective of caste, creed or political affiliation. She actively participated in rehabilitation efforts during and in the aftermath of the Kerala Floods of 2018. She campaigned extensively for the Congress during the 17th Lok Sabha Elections, especially in Wayanad, the constituency of Congress President Rahul Gandhi. As a spokesperson, she often emphasizes the pluralistic, secular fabric of India and is an outspoken critic of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party government.
On 31st December 2018, she was appointed media panelist by Rahul Gandhi. She is also a motivational speaker, having spoken at several events and programmes across the country, where she encourages listeners to take an active interest in politics and contribute to nation building. She was invited to attend the 8th Annual Invitational Program on International Relations & Strategic Affairs held at the Princeton University and as Chief Guest for ‘Smashing Stereotypes’, an event held by ‘Mind Your Fitness’ to celebrate the essence of womanhood.
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https://www.facebook.com/shamamohd17/ https://in.linkedin.com/in/shama-mohamed-11087161 https://medium.com/women-in-kerala-media/womeninmedia-90e32476ecab

RBTC Delhi nominee. SHAZIA ILMI. Politician. Spokesperson BJP. Click side arrow for profile details.

Shazia Ilmi (born 1970) is an Indian politician. She was previously a television journalist and anchor at Star News. She led a media campaign for an anti-corruption bill (to institute an ombudsman popularly known as the Jan Lokpal Bill). She was a member of the Aam Aadmi Party's National Executive but left the party in May 2014 and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in January 2015.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shazia_Ilmi

RBTC Delhi nominee. ZAHIDA KHAN. Politician. Member of Legislative Assembly. Hometown: Mewat, Haryana. ( No separate RBTC list for Haryana, Consider adding in Delhi) Click side arrow for profile details.

Zahida Khan, daughter of Mewat (Haryana), needs no introduction as she had created history by becoming first woman MLA from Meo community in the country in year 2008. She fought assembly election from Kaman from Congress party and became first Meo Muslim to win an MLA election after her father’s sudden demise and the record holds till date.
Born on March 6, 1963, Zahida is a law graduate from Delhi University and is married to an engineering graduate, Jalish Khan. She is also an active social worker in the Mewat region of Rajasthan, the area before she entered politics.
Zahida has also been elected as Chairman of Panchayat Samiti Kaman in the year 2000-2005. Her father Tayyab, former minister and MP, who was Chaudhary of Mewat and is the only politician in country to hold distinction of being minister from three different states i.e. Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan and no other politician has been able to match the record till date. He was also instrumental in getting OBC status for Meo community in Haryana. His elder son and Zahida’s elder brother Ch. Zakir Hussain, advocate apart from head of all the 36 communities of Mewat is a three time MLA from Nuh assembly constituency of Haryana and which is known as the capital of Mewat. Mewat region spreads from Haryana, Rajasthan, UP and MP to several other states.
References/Sourceshttps://www.jantakareporter.com/india/meet-zahida-khan-first-women-mla-from-meo-community/221438/

Shining in Sports [1 nominee only]

RBTC Delhi nominee. ROSHNI MISBAH. Bike Rider. Youngest Member of Bikerni, All woman biker Group, Delhi. Click side arrow for profile details. [ Can shift to RBTC youth inspirations]

Roshni Misbah was born in 1997 to a conservative Muslim family of Ghaziabad. She is a Popular Bike Rider Girl, who is quickly acquiring a celebrity status in Delhi and on Social Media. She is popularly known as ‘Hijabi Biker’, she is also a Honda CBR 250-riding Jamia student. She has become an idol and role model for other young girls aspiring to ride motorbikes. People’s love has brought her on such a big platform of MTV Ace of Space 2.
Roshini says she is one of the youngest members of Bikerni, an all-woman biker group in Delhi that aims at gender empowerment through female motorcyclists. (Image: Instagram)
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https://www.news18.com/photogallery/indiwo/she-is-a-biker-she-wears-a-hijab-meet-superwoman-roshni-misbah-2059121-6.htmlhttps://latestinindia.in/roshni-misbah/https://www.hindustantimes.com/delhi/roshni-misbah-a-22-year-old-hijab-clad-super-biker-is-breaking-all-the-stereotypes/story-7JrCDSer1HTmxEIefeCUNL.html

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