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  Lopa Patel  
South Britain - 2005 Winner
Media, Arts & Sports Excellence Award
LOPA PATEL
Redhotcurry.com
Lopa Patel is founder of Redhotcurry.com, the award-winning lifestyle portal website for UK Asians launched in November 2001. The site is Britain’s most popular South Asian Resource having achieved staggering readership growth from humble beginnings as a cookery site. It features an informative collection of in-depth articles on race, culture, entertainment, religion, food, curry, ethnic fashion and beauty - all written with a South Asian perspective -and attracts over 40,000 unique users and several million hits each month. Lopa was recently named ‘Asian Woman of the Year’ 2005 in the Media Professional Category. She won the Windrush Award in 2003 as an ‘Internet & Technology’ Innovator and was awarded a special Windrush Judges Award in 2004.