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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.
In a city that rarely slows down, Rajesh Jadhav has spent a decade doing exactly that — pausing long enough to listen. As a diagnostics specialist working at the intersection of healthcare and human connection, he has quietly reshaped what wellness means for those often left out of the conversation: the economically disadvantaged, the stigmatized, the addicted, the overlooked. His story isn’t one of spotlights or recognition — it’s one of showing up, again and again, with the belief that sometimes all it takes to change a life is the right information at the right moment.
Kalpana Sachin Bhojane is a Mumbai-based Makeup & Hair Artist with five years of experience in bridal beauty, fashion and creative hairstyling. With an eye for elegant transformation and a distinctive creative vision, she now brings her artistry to IBC Belleza Luxé 2026, where beauty, fashion and individual expression meet.
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.
Nominated for the IBC Excellence Awards 2026 There is a particular kind of fame that never needs a stadium. It is built instead on dust and dusk light, on the collective gasp of a crowd pressed against a boundary rope, on a name passed from one cricket season to the next until it becomes something …
At 47, Mamta Sanjay Ulvekar isn’t stepping into the spotlight to prove she can keep up — she’s stepping into it to show there’s no age at which a woman should stop becoming. From a disciplined career in IT to voice work, acting, and now the Mrs. India stage at IBC Belleza Luxe Diva 2026, her journey is a quiet rebellion against the idea that dreams come with an expiry date. Nominated for the IBC Excellence Awards 2026, she proves that reinvention isn’t reserved for the young — it’s simply reserved for the brave.
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.
