Radhika Maira Tabrez

Radhika Maira Tabrez is an award-winning Indian writer.[1]

Background

Radhika holds an MBA from Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune (SIBM). She pursued a twelve-year career in Learning and Development. During her time at SIBM, she became the first and till-date the only, female to be elected as President of Students’ Council in over 35 years of the Institute's history.[2] She has worked across ITeS, Telecom, Travel and Tourism and BFSI sectors.[3] She volunteers with The Red Elephant Foundation. She is the founder of Roots & Wings Programme – a skill and personality enhancement programme for children.[4] She is also an active member of the Kalam Library Project, an initiative which aims at putting a free library within the reach of village and small town children.[5]

Writing

Radhika's stories have been published in 'UnBound - and eMagazine' Sankarak. She is a contributor to two of Readomania's anthologies, 'Defiant Dreams'[6] and 'When They Spoke'. Reviewer Maya Khandelwal described Radhika's story saying "So vivid a description, so minutely the details arrested, to stay long in the reader’s heart, so beautifully loaded with sentiment a woman can at once relate with, so picturesque the hide and seek of love and regret!"[6] Radhika is the author of In the Light of Darkness and received the Muse India Young Writer Award in 2016 for it.[7] She was a speaker at the Hyderabad Lit Fest in 2016.[8]

Awards

In 2016 Radhika received the Muse India- Satish Verma Young Writer Award for her book, In the Light of Darkness', a prestigious award given to debut writers under 35 years of age. In 2017, We are the City adjudged her to be one of the India Rising Star Award's top 100 women.[4] In March 2018 she became the first Indian ever to speak at a TEDx event in Bangladesh. In November 2018 she was adjudged one of the '100 Most Inspiring Authors' in India, by Indian Awaz.

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References
  1. "Mrs. Radhika Maira Tabrez Visits SIBM Hyderabad | SIBM Hyderabad Blog". www.blog.sibmhyd.edu.in. Retrieved 2018-01-11.
  2. "Radhika Maira Tabrez - Hyderabad Literary Fest 2018". Hyderabad Literary Fest 2018. Retrieved 2018-01-11.
  3. "RADHIKA MAIRA TABREZ". INCREDIBLE WOMEN OF INDIA. 2015-10-04. Retrieved 2018-01-11.
  4. "Rising Stars 2017 Winners | WeAreTheCity". WeAreTheCity India. Retrieved 2018-01-11.
  5. "Inspirational Woman: Radhika Tabrez | Writer; Associate Editor – Incredible Women Of India Blogzine". WeAreTheCity India. 2017-04-20. Retrieved 2018-01-11.
  6. "Defiant Dreams: Tales of Everyday Divas - A Book Review - Learning and Creativity". Learning and Creativity. 2016-03-08. Retrieved 2018-01-11.
  7. "Muse India Young Writer Awards 2016 declared". The Hans India. Retrieved 2018-01-11.
  8. "Radhika Maira Tabrez - Hyderabad Literary Fest 2018". Hyderabad Literary Fest 2018. Retrieved 2018-01-11.
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