Divya Gupta Kotawala Got Felicitated With The Title Of 'Inspiring Icon Of The Year 2025'.

On the auspicious occasion of Women's Day, INKZOID FOUNDATION appreciates Divya Gupta Kotawala's hardwork, dedication, creativity and felicitates her with the title of 'Inspiring Icon Of The Year 2025'.

Born and brough-up in Delhi, Divya Gupta Kotawala, wears several hats – a wife, a mother to a 16year-old girl , a business women and a loyal friend to a bunch of quadragenarian, whom she has known for nearly four decades! However, the role that she has cherished the most in her life is that of the daughter of her father – Shri Suresh Gupta. Divya lost her father to COVID in 2021…that pushed Divya to turn an author for the first time at the age of 40!

Divya completed her schooling from Modern School, Barakhamba Road,

 Later she joined the prestigious St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University, where she did her honours in History. Thereafter, in pursuit of her passion for designing and creativity, Divya joined the National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT), for a course in fashion designing after which she joined renounced fashion designers Ashima and Leena singh for her internship. Soon she got married in a 300 year old Jewellry family and founded her jewellery brand along with her husband Manish ‘House of Kotawala’ 

For Divya, life has been all about simplicity, creative and maintaining a healthy balance between her personal, professional and social life. When not struggling between these she loves to devote her time to social welfare work. Divya also has a strong spiritual side,she enjoys chanting and praying and is an ardent follower of Guruji. 

A once super happy and fun person as Divys fell into a deep ditch of mourning and grief after losing her beloved dad. She feels that she has finally found her true calling and purpose through this book that made her revisit her oldest passion of writing and communicating her feelings and emotions through words to not only too her hero in heaven but also with the world.

Her book ‘My dads daughter’ not only gave her father a perfect farewell that he truly deserved but it also gave a new meaning to Divya’s life…since then she has involved herself in various activities that helped not only her heal but also many others like her who went though a loss and suffered extreme outburst of grief and pain …her new journey became a medium for her to transform her pain into her biggest strength 

Today she is involved with recording Podcasts, public motivational speaking opportunities that help her connect with more n more people dealing with grief everyday who have failed to find closures, for her work she has been awarded and recognised by various platforms and she has recently won the ‘Entrepreneurs today 40 under 40 award for 2023!! Also has been selected as a speaker for the delhi literature festival, jashn events literature festival , womenlisted event, and has recorded podcasts for many well known platforms. , she was covered by the prestigious platform HUMANS OF BOMBAY and was invited as a speaker on various platforms including the prestigious WORLD BOOK FAIR 2024 and Delhi literature festival 2023 and Guest of Honour at Iam the Women of the year award show 2024 and has showcased her book at many book fairs , including the one at Ramjas college and lady Hardinge medical college 

Very recently Divya turned a TEDX SPEAKER too and it was a beautiful moment for her …her talk is now live on your tube on the tedx platform where she speaks about the topic ‘together towards tomorrow’ and got a great and an overwhelming response from the audience ….her book has been in the list of top 10 best seller on AMAZON on 7th rank !!

Divya is very actively involved in various well connected networking groups of delhi such as Ficci( yflo ) Cii ( Iwn) , Ladies who lead for which she has been added to the Champion committee for the work she has been doing as a networker since long , BNI that gives her an opportunity to share her journey with many more people across India everyday ! She has been appointed as the Community ambassador for the Aashwika foundation for all the philanthropic work she has been doing for years .

Just very recently her first ANTHOLOGY was released ‘STORIES OF COURAGE ‘ along with 11 more authors in the month of Nov 24’ that’s now available on Amazon 

For her work as someone who wants to provide a support group to grieving people she has been awarded several awards so far and she dreams to one day create a community where apart from happiness people can come together to share pain and heal together. And maybe one day when she meets her father in heaven he might tell her ‘Thanku for continuing my story ‘ Is all that keeps her going forward every single day !!

• Her book has featured in various book fair , delhi, chinar and Goa book festival 

• SRG literary award for best biography

• HER Story times inspiration award 2022

• Fox Story India Women face of the year 2023

• Women excellence awards 2023 for prominent author of delhi 

• Fempreneur conference and award 2022 by Vyapar Jagat 

• Certificate of appreciation by Indian women History museum 

• Featured on the cover page of Book hub magazine, the Literery today magazines and Womneentreprenue magazine 

•Jashn events literature carnival award 

• Icon of India award by inspiring women committee 

• India inspirational women awards recognition as a writer 

• Iconic business women and author award by AIWA

• Asia excellence award 2023 by MMTV India 

• Prefect women magazines Top 30 successful women of 2023

• Syahee se, Literery award( top 30 authors )

• Guest of honour for Iam women of the year award 2024

•Sahitya Sparsh award 2024 

•Top 10 Indian influential women 2024 by Hindustan times 

•Top 6 inspirational women 2024 by Holistic spine 

•Inspiring women author of 2024 ny Femme times 

•Phenomenal women recognition 2024 by Cherry books Awards  

•Top 60 Game changer women of 2014 by Midday news paper 

•Recently covered on the 3rd page of MIDDAY newspaper for her story as an author 

•Covered by Hindustan metro and INSC as one of the 3 most extraordinary stories of success from the field of literature 

•Covered by IANS Platform 

•Covered by FEMINA MAGAZINE  

•Special guest at the Young authors Launchpad 

•Recently selected to stand for her school elections ( modern school ) for the post of EC 

•Featured in her college st.Stephens newsletters many times as well as Modern school magazine for her good work 

•On the FORBES LIST of most inspiring leaders of 2024

• CHAMPIONS OF THE YEAR award by la desi who lead organisation 

• Maa se beti sawai award by lyness club 

• Bharat ratna samana award 2025