Neelam Saxena Chandra (born 27 June 1969) is an Indian poet and author. She has written novels, short stories, children's stories, and poetry in

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Biography

Chandra has authored four novels, a novella, five collections of short stories, 25 collections of poetry, and 10 books for children. She has received several awards including the ''"

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International Award"'' in 2014.Forbes India Celebrity 100 Nominees List for 2014
Forbes India, 12 December 2014 given by Xpress Publications. She was awarded a prize in a poetry contest organized by the

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, on the topic ''Poetry for Social Change''. The song ''Mere Sajan Sun Sun'', for which she was the lyricist won a 'Popular Choice Award' in the Folk Fusion category at the Radio City Freedom Awards. She was shortlisted for the IPR Annual Award 2020. She is an IES Officer (1992 batch), and has also served as Joint Secretary of

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(UPSC). She served as Executive Director of

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and now serves as Assistant Divisional Railway Manager (ADRM) of Pune Division.

Awards and recognition

*2014: Rabindranath Tagore International Poetry Award from Xpress Publications: Kerala, India. *Lyricist of ''Mere Sajan Sun Sun'' which won a 'Popular Choice' award at the Radio City Freedom Awards. *2014: Featured in

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Celebrity 100 Nominees long list 2014. * 2018: Humanity International Women Achievers Awards by Aditya Birla Hospital. * 2018: Soninder Samman for contribution in

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External links

Official website

‘My daughter gave birth to the story-teller in me’
on ''Millennium Post''
Neelam Saxena Chandra's Interview
on ''

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Awards and recognition

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