The most respected brand amongst Indian women entrepreneurs.  President of The Indian Television Academy. Founder of The ITA Awards since 2001, GR8 Women Achiever Awards, NGO BETI Association – Charity for Women, Anchor & Producer of Reel or Real with Anu on Facebook. Television veteran with a 3-decade repertoire, Philanthropist and educationalist. Self-motivated multi-tasking entrepreneur and authentic visionary who changed the face of Indian Television. To garner and galvanize the entire TV fraternity under one umbrella, Anu envisaged The Indian Television Academy in 2001, with the cardinal aim of building bridges amongst the disparate sectors of this medium. As the President of The Indian Television Academy, she was the first person to introduce a structured system into the unorganised television segment to provide a ready platform for the industry to meet, interact and figure the future landscape Simultaneously she single-handedly launched the ITA Awards dedicated towards honouring personalities of the highest distinction from the television fraternity which assumed the throne of being India’s maiden television awards of repute. Today it completes its 20th year of existence in India.  Since then, she has turned ITA into an unqualified success story, whether by creating unprecedented welfare measures for its members; instituting the first ever totally TV centric awards; providing a pioneering platform for interaction amongst the different quarters of the industry by way of the seminar, “On Television”; providing mediation between channels and producers, creating awareness on bureaucratic flaws with a social welfare documentary “Who Cares”, so forth and so on.   Being an educator at heart, she co-founded The ITA School of Performing Arts which boasts of being a premier institution where veterans belonging to the performing arts industry impart training in acting, dancing, singing, modelling, image grooming with branches in Mumbai, Indore, Jaipur and Pune.  In 2003 she advanced a step further and launched a television-only centric glossy called GR8 TV Magazine to bring to the fore untold stories from the television world. Her pursuits for creating better working ethos for Indian television continued unabated. She instituted the Gr8 Women Awards to felicitate and celebrate women achievers from different walks of life in India and Middle East. Today the IP completes 2 decades since its inauguration and launched its maiden Dubai edition in 2011.  A grand milestone in her wide-ranging occupations has been the initiation of BETI Association-A Charity for Women in 2006 in conjunction with United Nations Population Fund. The NGO was launched to increase awareness around female foeticide, child abuse, girl child education and assistance to acid and rape victims.  Listen to his incredible journey on Meri Kahani with Bhawana Somaaya! You can follow us and leave us feedback on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter @eplogmedia, For partnerships/queries send you can send us an email at [email protected]. If you like this show, please subscribe and leave us a review wherever you get your podcasts, so other people can find us. You can also find us on https://www.eplog.media See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.