From Our Special Correspondent
Daijiworld Media Network

Bengaluru, Mar 8: Seven eminent women from Karnataka were honoured at the International Women’s Day celebration organised by the Association of Women entrepreneurs of Karnataka (AWAKE) in Bengaluru on Tuesday.

The seven women are: Senior IAS officer and Additional Chief Secretary K Ratna Prabha, scientist T K Anuradha, project Director of GSAT 12, Asia’s first woman coffee tasrer Sunalini Menon, danseuse and TV/Film artiste Lakshmi Gopalaswamy, green entrepreneur/organic faemer Sangita Sharma, social entrepreneur and founder of Feed Your Neighbour Initiative Mahita Fernandes and Sportsperson Nandini Basappa.

Former Chief Justice of India Justice M Venkatachalaiah and State Industries and Tourism Minister R V Deshpande were the chief guests at the function, during which Lisa S Rao, Founder CMD of I Brand Beverages, tread the non-traditional path to meet success in the male dominated liquor industry, delivered the Key note address.

A panel discussion on ‘’Local to Global: Steps from Start-up to Exports ‘’ deliberated on the Opportunities, challenges and solutions that are available to women entrepreneurs right from Start-up –to Scale-up  to reaching out to Global markets. 

The panel discussion was moderated by Sucharita Eashwar, Founder, Catalyst for Women Entrepreneurs. Eminent entrepreneurs Jyoti Thyagarajan – Founder Meghashala, Mimi Parthasarathy – Founder, Sinhasi Consultants and Sangeeta Kulkarni – Founder CEO – Brickworks India were the panellists along with P. Ravikumar, Zonal General Manager of NSIC, GOI and A. Mamatha, Senior Manager, KSFC.

Several eminent industrialists, entrepreneurs and officials from various Government departments joined the celebrations in encouragement and support of women in business.