Eleven women achievers were felicitated with the first ever The Telegraph She Awards 2016, presented by Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals Kolkata, in association with Senco Gold and Diamonds, at ITC Sonar on Saturday evening. Selected by a jury comprising Naresh Kumar, Craig L. Hall, Rituparna Sengupta and Rupali Basu, the list of sheroes included ace designer Anamika Khanna, who received The Telegraph She Power Award, and pioneering educationist Sister Cyril, who was inducted into The Telegraph She Awards Hall of Fame. 

Anamika (left), who flew into town from India Couture Week in Delhi barely an hour back, shared with the audience and emcee Swastika Mukherjee what she had told her friends in the capital: “I’m going to Calcutta and The Telegraph…. That’s home.”

Sister Cyril (right) made a strong case against the current obsession with “competition”, while receiving the award from Rituparna. “Even in the Olympic Games, people are cheating and taking drugs… and it’s all coming from the school system 
that encourages children to fight for the top place….”

Pictures by Rashbehari Das