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K Rashi Badalia Kumar - Biography
K Rashi Badalia Kumar is an Academician, Vlogger, Radio Broadcaster (Voice of UP), Rani Laxmi Bai Bravery Award Winner - 2016 (for versatile contribution to FM Broadcasting), Personality Development & Grooming Expert, Author, Motivator & Tarot Reader. Right now she is working with University of Allahabad, Allahabad, India as a Faculty for Radio Journalism and Professional Skills Development Programme. She is also a Guest Broadcaster with All India Radio, Allahabad.

With her wide experience of long 18 years in Radio Broadcasting, working with government, semi-government and corporate radio stations, heading a few FM stations as Programming Head, Rashi has given 'VOICE' new dimensions by taking her voice to newer heights getting out of box, thereby establishing the trend to get going with vlog, webcast and freelance by contributing regular content, full of variety - which is educative, informative and entertaining. Be it English Communication, Personality Development & Grooming sessions, Spiritualism or Tarots Foretell, Rashi's bouqet is loaded with vibrant flowers of vivid freshness and colours.

The Unique Selling Proposition of her channel that she runs on YouTube is that she manages it all single-handedly - without studio and hi-fi gadgets. K Rashi Kumar has given her Passion for Broadcasting a new Vision, where she emerges as a Brand.

Audience must watch an exclusive talk show FACE-2-FACE with Rashi, only on her YouTube channel, where celebs and personalities from different fields are interviewed in a peppy way - highlighting specifics and issues from an entirely new perspective.

'BE THE LIGHT, SPREAD THE LIGHT' is the mission of her channel 💖

K Rashi Badalia Kumar's Biography :

Rashi is a talent with versatility, a persona with vibrant cheerfulness, and a voice with melody unforgettable.

She was born in Patna, Bihar and brought up in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, as her parents moved from Patna when she was three years old. She did her primary schooling at Happy Hours School and Seventh-Day Adventist, Lucknow.

About her love for Radio, Rashi says, “A transistor was my best companion of school days. I had always dreamt to be the voice coming out of this box. I still remember one day, I had gathered all my certificates, prepared a CV and rushed to All India Radio. There I met Mrs Rama Arun Trivedi, then the Programme Executive, who looked after the youth programme ‘Yuvvani’. She told whenever the auditions would happen, I will be informed. I had to wait for over a year for that. When it happened, I gave my auditions and got selected as a compere for English programmes. The year was 1997, and from here my Radio journey began’.

Things were not easy for Rashi. Prior to this while pursuing her graduation, she was already working. Her father’s roaring whole sale business of spices was facing a bad phase and it was then she decided to take an independent call – the call to be a strength to her father.

Having flair and passion for imparting education, she took up a job of a teacher at City Montessori Inter College, Chowk branch, Lucknow in 1995. So AIR’s youth programme ‘Yuvvani’ entered her life as a medium of outlet of her creative passion.

In 2000, when state capital’s first FM station, AIR FM (Rainbow) was set to be launched, Rashi, who was working as a teacher at Unity College, Lucknow, was called for the auditions and her voice was selected by a panel of experts of All India Radio, who had arrived from Delhi and Mumbai.

“It was they who decided that I would present the very first show to go on-air to launch AIR FM and so I presented the channel’s maiden show live for the audience on August 20, 2000. The show was Pop Time and I kick started it with my favourite track ‘My heart is beating’ from the film Julie. My special thanks to Mr Vijay Deepak Chibbar, Late Mr Rajiv Saxena & Mr Satyendra Singh for all their support and encouragement.”

The next seven years saw Rashi ruling air waves by her melodious voice, rich content and unique way of presentation. She became a trendsetter for many Rj’s who joined later. During this phase, she also did one and a half year of television, presenting UP – This week a sponsored show by Department of Information and Public Relations for DD1, Lucknow.

Post marriage, Rashi moved to Allahabad. Passionate for radio, she immediately joined Gyanvani, country’s first educational FM channel in January 2006.

During her two years stint here, besides presenting a number of live shows, she produced many docu-features in English on different subjects, including art forms like Odissi, Chitrapothi (the tradition of palm-leaf manuscripts of Orissa) and Sunderbans (feature on wildlife). Most of these docu-features became a part of EMPC, Electronic Media Production Centre database, New Delhi and were broadcast on different Stations all over the country.

In 2007, Rashi joined 93.5 S FM, now RED FM, Allahabad, and launched it as its first Programming Head. Then later, she joined 92.7 Big FM, Allahabad as Programming Head. In 2009, after eleven years of Radio Broadcasting experience, she entered the field to train radio professionals and joined Academy of Broadcasting, Allahabad, as its first Academic Head. “Here I trained a large number of aspiring radio professionals, many of whom are today working for different radio channels all across India.”

Rashi joined Institute of Professional Studies of Allahabad University in January 2012 and continues to train and impart communication & workplace skills to budding professionals of different fields be it media, fashion, nutritional sciences and computers, besides taking a specialised paper of Radio Journalism of Media Studies' students.

During the past 18 years, Rashi has also hosted a number of prestigious events of national and international importance, which includes, the ‘Golden Jubilee Celebrations’ of National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow,(2003) the ‘80th Annual Conference of All India Universities/ Institutes vice-chancellor/ Directors’ of SAARC & ASEAN countries held at Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Allahabad (2005), conceptualised and hosted the Big Local Activity in Allahabad “Tanishq BIG Memsaab”, which was a huge success and its winner, went on to become one of the finalists at Mrs Gladrags 2009, a prestigious function marking the Centenary Year of World's First Air Mail Service organised by the Indian Postal Department in association with Indian Air Force (2011), International Film Festival of Prayag, (2015), among others.

Rashi always left an impression of versatility on her audience and ever remained an unforgettable face and voice of melody and enthusiasm.

She has also done many voice-overs for commercials, documentaries and features for Radio including voice-over for a film documentary for UP Tourism by Lucknow Doordarshan.

Having done her schooling from Emma Thompson School in Lucknow, Rashi graduated from Isabella Thoburn College, Lucknow with English & Psychology and post graduated from Lucknow University in English, having pursued her research in American poetry for three years as a Phd. scholar but gave it up to dedicate herself fully to pursue her passion for Radio & Education.

Rashi is also a Tarot Reader, a motivator and specialize in Personality Development Training. Her very first self-help book for youth at cross-roads, on confidence-building and character formation, 'A GIFT - your self-help companion to life at crossroads... has also been published.

On winning' Voice of UP' & 'Rani Laxmi Bai Award', Rashi says, ‘I won because of love of my students, fans, listeners and well-wishers. They stamped my voice as the most loved voice of their hearts. It’s a joy to be recognized and loved. They all are very precious to me. My father’s indefatigable spirit to stand up against all odds is my biggest source of inspiration. He let me be ‘Me’.”

Her self-composed couplet for all those who love her – “Ek surat aisi bhi hoti hai, jo aankhon mein basti hai, Ek aawaaz aisi bhi hoti hai, jo rooh mein utarti hai, Ek rishta aisa bhi hota hai, jo dil mein chupa rehta hai, Ek jazbaat aisa bhi hota hai, jo mauka aane par ansuna sa shor machaa deta hai.”

K Rashi Kumar (talk) 15:30, 4 October 2017 (UTC)