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NILOFER SUMAIYA, LUCKNOW

- NOMINATED BY SAIRA ISAR

CATEGORY: CULTURE MASTERS

Nilofer, aged 26, is working as a software engineer at Ajio.com, Reliance Retail Ltd in Bangalore. She is a sketch artist by choice. Nirbhaya’s pain touched her heart and she revealed her pain through her sketches. She got a lot of appreciati­on on social media for her artwork. She believes in gender equality for all. She is immensely passionate about art and painting. Earlier, she had also painted the underpass of her college NIT, Karnataka along with the team members of her college’s cultural club Artists’ Forum. She has also rescued a lot of stray animals, over the years. Even though, she has not exhibited her works in public, her talent is sure to get recognized one day. She is a Mining Engineer but switched to software engineerin­g because of her talent and got recognized by an MNC.

She also got the best performer award in her company. There were a lot of problems in her way but she fought them religiousl­y and overcame all of them.

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