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Mohan Gajanan Raja has dedicated 16 years to social service, helping underprivileged patients access affordable healthcare, supporting students facing financial difficulties and contributing to natural disaster relief efforts. Recognising his commitment to society, he has been nominated for the IBC Excellence Awards 2026.
Mumbai knows how to recognise brilliance. It is a city of ambition, of stages and spotlights, and of people who arrive with a dream and refuse to let it go. This year, it welcomes a different kind of brilliance, the kind that does not announce itself because it is too busy getting on with the work.
Nominated for the IBC Excellence Awards 2026, Snehsantosh Social Welfare Foundation steps into the Mumbai spotlight with the quiet confidence of an organisation that was never chasing it. Led by Founders and Directors Santoshi Sarafdar and Sneha Rajapurkar, it begins every journey the same way: by listening.
Continue reading to discover the story behind the nomination.
There is a particular kind of woman who walks into a room and rearranges its air before she says a word. It is not performance. It is presence — the kind built over years of courtrooms, boardrooms and camera flashes, each teaching her a different dialect of the same language: command.
Adv. Dr. Himali Viral Vora speaks that language fluently. By day, she moves through the exacting world of corporate law. By calling, she kneels beside the underserved, translating statute into something a frightened client can actually hold onto. And somewhere in between — under studio lights, in front of a lens that misses nothing — she becomes something else entirely: a study in composure, cut fabric and unbothered elegance.
Three careers. One woman. Zero apology.
From writing code at TCS to building Mumbai’s running community through Run4U India, Nagraj Balgi is now stepping into cricket and sport with his new venture, Mystreyy Twisterss. This is the story of a founder who turned a personal fitness pursuit into a movement — and is now widening that movement into an entrepreneurial sporting ecosystem.
From Byculla’s classrooms to a Managing Director’s office, Monika Sachin Awate’s career reads like a masterclass in corporate ascent. But instead of resting at the top, she chose to begin again — trading the boardroom for the kitchen, and building Rajdarbar Misal with her husband, Sachin. Her story, nominated for the IBC Excellence Awards 2026, is proof that reinvention isn’t a departure from expertise — it’s a continuation of it.
Before he was a name behind education and youth empowerment initiatives, Sachin Sopan Awate was an engineering student who knew exactly what it felt like to want something he couldn’t afford. That memory became a mission — one that’s now earned him a nomination for the IBC Excellence Awards 2026. From a modest set of tutorials in Mazgaon to the Suryakund Mahapurush Society, this is the story of a man who chose purpose over comfort, and made someone else’s dream his own.
How a struggling engineering student turned his own hardship into a lifelong mission to educate others There is a particular kind of ache that comes from wanting to learn something badly and not being able to afford it. Sachin Sopan Awate knows that ache well. He carried it through his own years as an engineering …
