After the long tiring day, when people want a break from chaos and peace in life, RJ Rafat enters and becomes their ride-along. RJ by profession at 94.3 Big FM, me Rafat tries to change and life people’s moods through music and gossip.
I am the type of girl that doesn’t like to be bounded and bonded in patterns and ways. And things that are considered by society to not be done by a female is the first thing that is done by me. Right from childhood, whenever I hear any sorts of rules for girls, immediately a question occurs in my mind, are there these same rules for males as well? And if I do not find any logic behind any rule, then not abiding is the way, I choose.
The love of my life is my job and it is the reason I do it with utmost dedication. I have a rule in my life, called DPD which stands for Discipline, Punctuality, and Dedication. And people who can’t work according to this, I prefer not to walk with them in my life.
Enough about me, let me narrate my history now. My Life has been one of a nomad. My father Retd. Subedar Manzoor Ahmed Ji was in army. I was born in Udhampur(J&K). Brought up in Firozpur (Punjab). Did my schooling in Bhuj Kutch (Gujarat) and from Dehradun to Andhra Pradesh to Rajasthan to Guwahati (Assam), where all the places where I attended school ended in Malad (West Bengal). And finally got permanently fixed in Lucknow. And I believe this is the reason why I have no Hindu or Muslim in my blood but only the whole of India.
Right from childhood, watching and mimicking news anchors was my favourite activity. And in my classes, used to copy their style and would do book reading. For this, I used to get appreciation and at that time only I used to consider myself no less than a TV anchor. Further, I did my post-graduation in Shia PG College, Lucknow in Masters’s in Journalism. Then did the job for some time in Doordarshan and All India Radio and later on got an opportunity to work as an anchor. And I guess my real training began from there only. In 2017 Lucknow Big FM got launched and I got the offer to become the first voice of Lucknow Big FM. Right from then till now, I have just been trying to entertain the people of Lucknow. I feel I am blessed, because where people are not really happy with their jobs but I have such a job where I am happy with my job and also got the opportunity to keep people happy.
With my show, “EK SIP GOSSIP”, in its segment “Women Achievers Special Big Spotlight”, I try to give a chance to all the women who are doing good work with their hard work. In my show, amidst all my talks and gossip, I can’t stop myself to talk about people who have achieved something big with struggle, be it anybody, a labourer or a normal employee, a mother or children. If somebody has made it big with all the difficulties, then that person is an inspiration to me. That person becomes my hero and I take strength from them and inspire them to grow further.
I feel so happy to know what appreciation I give in my show to women, something like that is also done by Womenshine. The founder of Womenshine, Aparna Mishra, is to be congratulated that she thought like that and gave space to women. And I am glad that she added me to this list. Many thanks to you.
Thank you so much Womenshine.
And if any of the readers, felt any good or are curious to see or meet me then you can find me on social media @Rj Rafat Big FM. There you can find me and all my work.
Thank you from the heart.
