Special thanks to our Chief guest Mrs Chitra Desai an award winning author & poet who graced the occasion with her presence and mesmerized the audience through her wonderful poems and intense thoughts on power of words and poetry.

Although she is a lawyer by profession but she is a poet at heart. Her books “Sarson ke amaltas” and “Dararon mein ugi Doob” have been consistently winning hearts of readers.

She has received various awards including Maharashtra Rajya ‘Hindi Sahitya Academy’ award and Subhdra kumari Chouhan Samman from Guftugu, Prayagraj for ‘Sarso se Amaltaas’ Chitra ji has also got ‘Swaym siddha srujan Samman’ by Being Women foundation of Kavi Kumbh Patrika .

She has been a Board member for the cental board of film certification, jury member for National film awards, former member of the advisory committee of National film archives of India. Inspite of winning so many accolades Chitra ji is a very humble human being and a divine soul !

Thank you Anoop da for connecting us with Chitra ji.

Special thanks to our Special Guests Mrs KameshwarI Kulkarni – Founder of You, me and poetry and Mrs Niharieka misshra ( poet & Script Writer) for their presence and time that they took out for the big day of UBI. Thanks a ton for showering your love and support for UBI COMMUNITY. Your guidance and support is really precious for us.

This post will be incomplete without taking a few names who were the big pillars of strength for making the event successful.

Starting with Mrs Kalpana Vaedi who was there to help us with the wonderful venue NMSA.

A big shout out to the team of NMSA, Mr Vasant Tajne, Mr Somnath Patil, Mr Walter D’Souza, Mr Bharat and all staff members for all the support.

The foundation of #teamubi

was so very strong as Shyam Sundr Sharma sir took charge of everything.

Along with Dr Suchi Shukla and Divya Venkateswaran holding hands from the beginning till even post event still going on as we wind up all the things.

A big shout out for Mrs Sharma, Stuti, Vishwas and Manali for playing a wonderful host for TEAM UBI to make this event possible.

UBI team cannot thank you all enough as it was not possible to dream of this event witnout your whole hearted support.

A special note of gratitude for Ms Hamida, Madhavi Kuwadekar, Sayali Kuwadekar and Nisha Mahadevan for all the time and efforts you took to support the UBI MEGA EVENT.

Thanks to you Peeyush Maanke ji for travelling all the way to attend the event in spite of such adverse situations. Thanks Dr Ekta Sachdeva for taking out time in your hectic schedule and still being there as the pillar of strength. Your presence made a big difference to all of us.

Thanks to all those who travelled all the way from various cities of India including Kolkata, Delhi, Pune, Jabalpur, Ahmedabad and Bhopal to attend the event.

Missed you Dr Aparna Pradhan, we wish you a speedy recovery.

Thanks to Dr Sujata and Surjeet Singh ji for having faith in us and giving us the opportunity to host their Book launch.

It was an honour for us to have Mrs Bina Pillai as a guest. Thank you so much maam for gracing the occasion and sharing your books with the audience of Srijan Sangam.

Thanks to all the authors sharing their book through our stall and all other stall owners for coming and participating in our Mumbai MEGA Event.

Stalls –

Bapu Trust.

Green Shoppee

Holistic Healers

Eco Tales

Thanks to all the participants who mesmerized us with their presentations. Devashri, Rishabh, Rahul, Aparajita, Shraddha and the superstar performer Meena Saxena ji who took our breath away with the stunning ghoomar dance.

Thank you Rishabh and team for covering the event through your lenses. We are eagerly waiting to watch it again as the videos are awaited.

Last but not the least thank you to all the family members of the participants and team for standing with us when we all needed the support.

Kudos to each one who is a part of the event.

Looking forward for many more happening events IN Mumbai and across the world.

Here’s the link to the photographs of the event. Do feel free to download and share it with your loved ones.

Loads of love

Sapna Shivani Kekre.

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