User:Aruna Mukim

Dr. Aruna Mukim is a multifaceted social activist and the Chairperson of Amanuday NGO, which serves the societal causes that benefits the backward section of the society and the destitute. Dr. Mukim was born to 	Mr Devki Nandan Dalmia and Mrs Ishwari Dalmia in Delhi. She is married to Neeraj Mukim, and has 2 children; Pankhuri Mukim Nandy married to Abhishek Nandy, Director- SN Envirotech and Parth Mukim. She completed her P.Hd in Hindi literature.

Membership
One of the most distinguished personalities in India, Dr. Aruna Mukim has formerly been the president of Kalptaru Association, ex-consultant of WAPCOS {Water and Power Consultancies, Ministry of Water Resources, Government of India}. Due to the diverse line of work and contributions to the society both in her humanitarian and intellectual capacities, Dr. Mukim has been bestowed with the membership of some of the prestigious government agencies and other regulatory bodies from the field of creative arts and communication. Her membership in all such organizations is listed below:


 * Ceremonies Ceremonial, Culture & Creative Committee of Commonwealth Games
 * Film Censor Board, Ministry of I & B, Govt. of India
 * India International Center
 * Asia Life Line
 * Haryana Maitri Sangh
 * Pakistan Indian Forum for Peace and Democracy.
 * Akhil Bharat Rachnatmak Samaj
 * Tibet Study Group
 * Association of Peoples of Asia
 * Women’s Initiative for Peace in South Asia
 * South Asians for Human rights
 * Indo-Pak Soldiers Initiative for Peace
 * Hindi Prachar Samiti, Ministry of External Affairs
 * Hindi Prasar Committee, Ministry of Water Resource
 * Telephone Advisory Committee, MTNL/BSNL
 * FICCI ladies organisation
 * Marwari library (A century old institution)
 * Former member Hindi Salahkar Samiti, Delhi government

Book Writing
Dr. Aruna Mukim has a penchant for writing, a passion that she has translated into writing books in subjects that range from Hindi short stories, reference books and even mythology. To date, she has authored eight books. Two of them, Ek Ruh Yeh Bhi and Doosra Rukh are Hindi short stories. Her other notable works of Hindi literature are Naari Asmita ka prashan. (Reference book), Ek Sunehra Safar (A coffee table book, an ode to her parents)Dakshayni (A love Saga of Shiva and Sati,Novel-Hindi ) Dakshayni (Novel, English version), Hamari Adhoori Kahani (A novel, curated into a Bollywood Movie), Mehlon Mein Banwas ( A Hindi Novel based on the virah of Urmila, Wife of Laxman). She also helped in writing the dialogues of Hamari Adhuri Kahani (2015), a hindi movie starring Vidya Balan, Emran Hashmi, and Rajkumar Rao.

Awards
Over the years, Dr. Aruna Mukim has earned praiseworthy excellence for her work due to the exhibited dynamism in all the fields that she has been part of. Here is the list of awards won by Dr. Aruna Mukim.


 * Best Painter Year Kalpataru Association 1998
 * Samman Patra from Akhil BharatRachnatmakSamaj 1999
 * Indira Gandhi Priyadarshini Award 2003
 * Bharat Excellence Award 2009
 * Sur Aradhna Awards 2009
 * Jewel of India 2010
 * Human Excellence Award 2010
 * Listed in ASIAN ADMIRABLE ACHIEVERS 2010
 * Agr Ratna Award 2010
 * Marwari Mahila Ratan 2015
 * Naari Sashkati Samman 2016
 * Dr. B.R.Ambedkar National Award 2018

Other Achievements

 * Represented India at Vishwa Hindi Sammelan (2007) held in New York on the invite of Ban Ki-Moon, then UN Secretory General.
 * Represented India at Vishwa Hindi Sammelan(2012) held in Johannesburg.
 * Represented Indian Women in the delegation of Paigham-E-Aman to Pakistan to meet the then President of Pakistan General Parvez Musharraf.
 * She’s a fine artist, with a Series of Tanjore and Ajanta Paintings under her belt.
 * Initiated People to people contact with Nirmala Deshpande in a peace initiative with Pakistan.

Interview for Nityanutan
For Nityanutan, Dr. Aruna Mukim has conducted interviews with the eminent personalities of India which has been considered as a stickler for bridging the communication gap between common citizens and the head of the state with the help of fruitful formal discussions and questioning. Some of the personalities interviewed by her are:


 * Former Prime Minister Sh. I.K. Gujral
 * Former Prime Minister, Sh. V.P Singh
 * Shri Shatrughan Sinha
 * Smt. Sharmila Tagore
 * Shri Sunil Dutt
 * Other prominent figures of the country.

Social Work
Dr. Aruna Mukim is widely regarded for her endeavors to benefit the society and she has also been instrumental in promoting Gandhian teachings. Vis-à-Vis Amanuday NGO, she also runs a school by the name of AMANUDAY TRAINING SCHOOL in which 1800 destitute girls are provided Vocational Courses like Computers training, Sewing, Stitching, Embroidery, English learning, Cooking and Beauty Culture for such girlswho are living below poverty line. She started working with Ms. Nirmala Deshpande from 1987 and joined her in extensive tours of different states and remote areas of the country to popularize Mahatma Gandhi's message and Vinoba Bhave's teachings. She even accompanied Ms. Deshpande to Pakistan after Kargil War for'People to People’ dialogue to promote understanding between India and Pakistan. Dr. Mukim has been organizing monthly ‘Cancer Awareness Camps’ for poor and destitute women.

Cultural Activities
As a perpetual participant in the cultural activities that give fillip to the down-trodden and even the society at large, Dr. Aruna Mukim has organized several exhibitions that have earned praises of all and sundry. She has organized Anupam Kher's Play “Mera woh Matlab Nahi tha” for the first time ever in Delhi. Dr. Mukim also conducted an interview of Mr. Mahehs Bhatt in Delhi, Kolkata and Ahmedabad, which was publicly known as “heart to heart Conversation with Mahesh Bhatt” in FICCI She also organized Javed Akhtar Night at Ashoka Hotel participated with Smt. Gursharan Kaur (wife of then Prime minister Dr. Manmohan Singh) and attended by Shri Shatrughan Sinha & Rajeev Shukla in attendance. In the Delhi chapter 2016, she interviewed Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt. In this candid interview, the actor shared his life events.