News Desk, News Nation 360 : The first-ever Status Single Awards were held on Sunday, April 7 at The Park Hotel in Kolkata in collaboration with the Urvaraa Foundation. The event honoured the hardships and scars of 12 remarkable single women in a variety of fields while also recognising their inspiring journeys and accomplishments. Let's Talk, Charnock Hospital, and the Alok Foundation are sponsoring the awards; The Park, Kolkata is serving as the hospitality partner. Since its founding in 2021 as a Facebook-recognized community group of 4,000 women, Status Single has attracted significant attention from around the world. Its offline tribe now spans nine Indian cities: Kolkata, Delhi-NCR, Lucknow, Mumbai, Goa, Pune, Bangalore, Hyderabad, and
Chennai. International chapters are soon to launch in Canada, Dubai, and the UK. With 74.1 million members, Status Single is the first and only community in India specifically for urban single women. This represents 39% of all Indian women and is our highest-ever demographic. Sreemoyee Piu Kundu is a writer and columnist on gender and sexuality. Her first nonfiction work, Status Single, was published in 2018 and quickly rose to the top of the bestseller charts. It is considered a seminal work on female identity in a country where marriage and motherhood are still the highest validations for women. Shilpa Chakravarthy, Kaveri Dutt, Reshmi Bagchi, Imran Zaki, Saira Shah Halim, Sriranjani Joshi, Shaleini Bbiswas, Ujjanini, Jolly Chanda, Debjani Ghosh, and
Shveta Sharma were the distinguished guests who gave the award. Debjani Ghosh, the founder of Alok Foundation, a registered public charitable trust stated that they have worked with people who have survived acid attacks, transgender people, sex workers, tribal people, autistic people, people with special needs, people who are physically handicapped, cancer patients, orphans, street children, jail inmates, rural and tribal schools, colleges in Kolkata, female athletes, and more. They have also given inspirational awards to deserving recipients, raised awareness of the law and society, focused on human empowerment, and shaped young people's passions to help others and maintain a clean environment.
Pic - Krishnendu Kundu
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