NEW DELHI: This International Women’s Day, get ready for a seismic wave of empowerment! The Eagle Eye Network, a dynamic force within Digital Golgappa, proudly announces Divya Gupta Kotawala as the winner of the Phenomenal Women Recognition, 2024. This is a true celebration of extraordinary women who are super heroines in their fields of work.
ABOUT DIVYA GUPTA KOTAWALA
Born and brought-up in Delhi, Divya Gupta Kotawala, wears several hats – a wife, a mother to a 16year-old girl , a business woman and a loyal friend to a bunch of quadragenarian, whom she has known for nearly four decades! However, the role that she has cherished the most in her life is that of the daughter of her father – Shri Suresh Gupta. Divya lost her father to COVID in 2021…that pushed Divya to turn an author for the first time at the age of 40!
Divya Gupta Kotawala completed her schooling from Modern School, Barakhamba Road. Later she joined the prestigious St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University, where she did her honours in History. Thereafter, in pursuit of her passion for designing and creativity, Divya joined the National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT), for a course in fashion designing after which she joined renounced fashion designers Ashima and Leena Singh for her internship.
For Divya, life has been all about simplicity, creativity and maintaining a healthy balance between her personal, professional and social life. When not struggling between these she loves to devote her time to social welfare work. Divya Gupta Kotawala also has a strong spiritual side, she enjoys chanting and praying and is an ardent follower of Guruji.
A once super happy and fun person as Divya Gupta Kotawala fell into a deep ditch of mourning and grief after losing her beloved dad. She feels that she has finally found her true calling and purpose through this book that made her revisit her oldest passion of writing and communicating her feelings and emotions through words to not only too her hero in heaven but also with the world.
Her book ‘My dads daughter’ not only gave her father a perfect farewell that he truly deserved but it also gave a new meaning to Divya’s life…since then she has involved herself in various activities that helped not only her heal but also many others like her who went through a loss and suffered extreme outburst of grief and pain …her new journey became a medium for her to transform her pain into her biggest strength.
Today Divya Gupta Kotawala is involved with recording Podcasts, public motivational speaking opportunities that help her connect with more n more people dealing with grief everyday who have failed to find closures, for her work she has been awarded and recognised by various platforms and she has recently won the ‘Entrepreneurs today 40 under 40 award for 2023!!
Also has been selected as a speaker for the Delhi literature festival, ashhwaika’s foundation women’s day celebration, jashn events literature festival , women listed event, and has recorded podcasts for many well known platforms. Recently she was covered by the prestigious platform HUMANS OF BOMBAY and was invited as a speaker on various platforms including the prestigious WORLD BOOK FAIR 2024 and Delhi literature festival 2023 and Guest of Honour at Iam the Women of the year award show 2024
Divya Gupta Kotawala is very actively involved in various well connected networking groups of delhi such as Ficci( yflo ) Cii ( Iwn) , Ladies who lead , BNI that gives her an opportunity to share her journey with many more people across India everyday!
For her work as someone who wants to provide a support group to grieving people she has been awarded:
- SRG literary award for best biography
- HER Story times inspiration award 2022
- Fox Story India Women face of the year 2023
- Women excellence awards 2023 for prominent author of delhi
- Fempreneur conference and award 2022 by Vyapar Jagat
- Certificate of appreciation by Indian women History museum
- On the cover page of Book hub magazine, the Literery today magazines and Womneentreprenue magazine
- Jashn events literature carnival award
- Icon of India award by inspiring women committee
- India inspirational women awards recognition as a writer
- Iconic business women and author award by AIWA
- Asia excellence award 2023 by MMTV India
- Prefect women magazines Top 30 successful women of 2023
- Syahee se, Literary award( top 30 authors )
- Guest of honour at iam the Women of the year award
Phenomenal Women Recognition is more than just an acknowledgment. It is also a celebration of resilience, brilliance, and the power of every woman to shape the future. Stay tuned for more stories of inspiration and empowerment where greatness knows no bounds.
