Shailen - The Sufi Leftist

Sadhana A. Bhatt has served All India Radio as Director at various places in the country. She has also been the trainer for the program staff of All India Radio in different states of India. She has worked in different capacities in Mumbai Ahmedabad and Godhra. She is a creative programmer and has a flair for marketing and advertising. She has presented numerous programs on dignitaries like His Holiness The Dalai Lama Narendra Modi Hillary Clinton Nelson Mandela Ela Bhatt Ravindra Jain Mallika Sarabhai Shyam Benegal Raj Babbar Arvind Trivedi Amin Sayani Asha Bhosale Khayyam Sudha Murthy Geet Sethi P T Usha to name a few. She has been the sole coordinator for All India Radio Annual Prize Distribution function at Ahmedabad which was attended by dignitaries like Arun Jaitly The Governor of Gujarat The Chief Minister of Gujarat The Director General of All India Radio and three hundred and fifty participants from all over the country. She has planned the 50-year Golden Jubilee celebration of Vividh Bharati at Ahmedabad. The program had the choicest film songs from 1950 to 2000 of all decades under the title of Sunahara Safar. She planned the first marathon for the Radio entitled ‘Run for Radio’ in the year 2007 for different categories of citizens and army personnel which was sponsored by SBI and Reliance. The Marathon had a huge welcome from 4500 participants. She has done a masters in English Literature and a Bachelors in Music Education Tourism and Journalism. She is presently connected with the RAAH Foundation working for the skill development of blind and specially-abled kids and youth. Her first book of Hindi poems ‘Chupke Se’ was published in 2003 by Hindi Sahitya Parishad Gujarat.