Honors

Awards

Rashtriya Gaurav Award (Platinum)

Recipient of the prestigious Rashtriya Gaurav Award (2019) in association with the Government of Telangana. 

Tina Sequeira’s interview was covered in the front page of the Telangana Today’s 3rd Anniversary issue, which featured women achievers from the Telangana State. Tina featured alongside Spurthi Kolipaka, social activist and Founder of WomComMatters and Kiran Dembla, a body building champion, and fitness trainer to celebrities such as S.S. Rajamouli, Anushka Shetty, and Tamannaah

 

Tina Sequeira Author

With fellow Rashtriya Gaurav Award – Platinum winnersRahul Sipligunj, Golden Globe Awards 2023 Winner, Oscars 2023 nominated Independent Playback Singer and Winner of Big Boss (Telugu Season 3) and Padma Shri Awardee, Dr. Manjula Anagani.   

Tina Sequeira with Rahul Sipligunj

Orange Flower Award 2022

Winner of the prestigious Orange Flower Award (2022) by Women’s Web for Humor – Runners Up. 
 
Author Tina Sequeira
 
Author Tina Sequeira
 
Author Tina Sequeira
 
 
 
 
Author Tina Sequeira
 
Author Tina Sequeira
 

Tina Sequeira with The Orange Flower Awards  

Orange Flower Award 2017

Receiving the prestigious Orange Flower Award (2017) in the category of Writing on Work by Women’s Web from Sudha Menon, one of India’s leading contemporary authors.

Tina Sequeira with Sudha Menon

Tina Sequeira with Sudha Menon

Woman Lit Of The Year Award

Winner of the prestigious I.N.S.P.I.R.E Beyond Motherhood Awards 2020 in the “Literature” category.  

Author Tina Sequeira

Author Tina Sequeira

GrandQueens Leadership Award 2022

Winner of the prestigious ‘GrandQueens Leadership Awards’ (2022) in association with Lions’ Club International, held in Hyderabad on International Women’s Day, 8th March 2022. The esteemed jury bestowed the award in the Stalwart category in recognition of my work as an Author and Poet.  

Author Tina Sequeira

Author Tina Sequeira

Author Tina Sequeira

Author Tina Sequeira

GrandQueens Leadership Award 2020

Winner of the prestigious ‘GrandQueens Leadership Awards’ (2020) in association with Lions’ Club International, held in Hyderabad on International Women’s Day, 8th March 2020. The esteemed jury bestowed the award in the top Leader series category in recognition of my work as a Writer. 

GrandQueensLeadershipAwards

Author Tina Sequeira

 Quoted on the Book Memoir of a Cancer Warrior

Tina Sequeira’s review featured on the book cover of Niyati Tamaskar’s gutsy memoir ‘Unafraid: A survivor’s quest for human connection,’ alongside Forbes magazine, which featured it as one of eight books that spark human connection in 2020. Niyati Tamaskar, an author, TEDx speaker, and advocate for women and minorities, shares her story as a cancer survivor and breaks the shame, taboo, and stigma associated with breasts and cancer, especially in the Indian society. All book proceeds go to the American Cancer Society. 

Earth’s Biggest List of Empowered and Inspiring Indian Women

Tina Sequeira has been named in the Earth’s Biggest List of Empowered and Inspiring Indian Women.

Nation Wide Excellence Awards 2022

Winner of the ‘Most Inspiring Women of the Year – 2022 – Author Category by Business Mint’s Nationwide Women Excellence Awards 2022. 

Nari Samman Puraskar 2020

Felicitated with the ‘Nari Samman Purskar’ by Literoma on 8 March 2020, International Women’s Day held in in Kolkata. The Nari Samman Puraskar is awarded to women achievers in diverse fields across India. 

Literoma_TinaSequeira

Listed In The ‘Top Writers of 2020’ by Youth Ki Awaaz

Listed in the Top 20 writers of 2020  by YouthKiAwaazIndia’s leading media publication for Social Justice. Writers are listed in an alphabetical order.

Author Tina Sequeira

Listed In The ‘Top Writers of 2017’ by Youth Ki Awaaz

Listed in the Top 35 writers of 2017 by YouthKiAwaazIndia’s leading media publication for Social Justice. Writers are listed in an alphabetical order.

 

Screenshot from 2019-02-15 15_06_22 (1)

Screenshot from 2019-02-15 15_06_33

Orange Flower Award – Finalist

Felicitated as a top Finalist in the category of Humour (2020)

Felicitated as a top Finalist in the category of Best Use of Twitter for Social Impact (2019) and Parent Blogging (2019)

83171417_2831575380195929_3157915845875728384_n

Felicitated as a top Finalist in the category of Humour (2017), of, Poetry (2017) Parent Blogging (2017)

24862306_1634686869884792_1835403126372411232_n

24900019_1635474636472682_7932533213415825878_n

24909936_1635474243139388_8465673219176653739_n

24899963_1635474449806034_2470866350871659225_n

 

Finalist in the category of Personal Blogging (2016)

15871592_1400471599987191_5292658041524110156_n

Orange Flower Award – Shortlist

Shortlist in the category of Creative Writing (2018), Humour (2018), Parenting (2018) and Writing on Work (2018). 

47310888_2077382505615224_1035237175903387648_n

47292468_2077210472299094_1051919498895949824_n

47301717_2077333432286798_2782897108523417600_n

Top Ranked Mommy Blogger and Influencer on Momspresso

Top ranked blogger at Momspresso, India’s largest parenting platform,  with a wide readership and also a part of their exclusive Mommy Influencer Club. 

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is 78548418_10157534144930289_8153388923419099136_n-1.jpg

Listed Among The ‘Featured Authors’ by Women’s Web

Among the top Women’s Web authors, regularly featured among the Authors of the Week. Read my Featured Authors of Month – April 2017 interview here. 

Screenshot from 2019-02-15 16_15_55

17796062_10154702872198318_5805318044725626016_n

TINA SEQUEIRA, THE TINA EDIT

Influential Women Award 2020

The Spirit Mania Influential Women Awards 2k20 are dedicated to women across India who are influencing society in their respective areas of work. They felicitated Tina Sequeira with this honour for her contribution in the Media space on the occasion of International Women’s Day 2020.
 
 

Critic Space Top Debut Author

“Top 100 Debut Indian Authors of 2019” for Bhumi, my fiction debut which released barely few weeks before the announcement of the award.

CERTIFICATE 10

On Top of Goodread’s ‘The Best Ebooks Ever’ (2017)

Soul Sojourn, Tina Sequeira’s debut nonfiction is No.1 on the Best Ebooks Ever 2017 on Goodreads.

Screenshot from 2019-02-15 15_43_32

Best Use Of Social Media Award 

Winner of the Best Use of Social Media for the Super Blogger Challenge 2018.

38085657_10156307809760289_6389761612357566464_n

 

 

Media Mentions

Featured on the front page of the 3rd-anniversary edition of Telangana Today. The anniversary edition celebrates women achievers from diverse walks of life in the state.

Tina Sequeira

The lone author featured in this newspaper report clipping of the prestigious list of Rashtriya Gaurav Award winners. 

 

My interview on books featured in WOW Hyderabad, leading lifestyle magazine in Hyderabad – Aug 2019 edition.

67672550_10157194495430289_3135094708947124224_n

 

 

The Write Away Program, a creative writing workshop where I mentor my students on the subtle nuances of creative writing is Featured in WOW Hyderabad, leading lifestyle magazine in Hyderabad listed under Wow! Recommends.

38600315_10156322721105289_8074595356077195264_n

 

 

My tweet on the Hrithik Roshan – Kangana Ranaut controversy was featured in the International Business Times Times of India, leading American online news publication alongside Rajeev Masand, Celebrity Journalist and Film Critic, and Deepika Bharadwaj, journalist, documentary filmmaker, and men’s rights activist.

 

My YouthKiAwaaz article on the Hrithik Roshan – Kangana Ranaut controversy was appreciated and shared by Kunal Kapoor, Indian actor, producer, writer, and entrepreneur, on his Twitter handle. 

 

One of my quotes from my book “Soul Sojourn” got featured in the MANILA BULLETIN, Philippines’ largest English language publication and the second oldest newspaper published in the Philippines and the Far East, at the end of an entertainment story by their feature writer Mike Lim

 

 

Featured in the The Times of India (Jan 2019), leading daily national newspaper. I was among the Jury for “La Fiesta”, the annual Literary and Dramatics inter-college competitions held by St.Francis College for Women, Hyderabad.

51066367_10156749916965289_8006501256644263936_n

 

Among the official Blogchatter Ebook Author Mentors for the #AtoZChallenge.

Screenshot from 2019-02-15 15_42_02

Screenshot from 2019-02-15 15_41_28 (1)

 

Special Mention from Readomania for my book review of House of Discord written by Sadiqa Peerboy.

Screenshot from 2019-02-15 15_44_43

 

Winner of the Momspiration – Celebrating Mums Who Inspire contest (2017) by Momspresso. The Mother, my short story won among thousands of entries worldwide.

Screenshot from 2019-02-15 15_47_17

 

Winner of the #WarriorWoman contest by Juggernaut and Women’s Web for my short story, The Show Must Go On. 

21432683_1547131785306968_160316804115367090_n

 

Fat Chance, my short story that deals with issues such as body shaming and sexuality, is the Editor’s Choice by Readomania, an independent publishing house that nurtures and showcases diverse new writers from India.