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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 …
