1. Gargi Bhattacharya has received
the finalist award in 'Language and Culture' category from Hindu
Council of Australia (Gargi Award 2019) supported by
Multi-cultural New South Wales (New South Wales Government). The
plaque was bestowed upon her by a Candidate for NSW upper house .
The award function was graced by various political dignitaries
(Representation from Multicultural Minister, Representation from
city Mayor, member of parliament of NSW, candidates for NSW state
election and councilors).
The award is named after the ancient Indian philosopher Gargi and
was presented on the International Women's Day for outstanding
achievements of women in their respective fields. The winner in
this category has won several prestigious accolades before and is
an elderly educationist. Gargi Bhattacharya was the only Bengali
recognised in 2019.
2. Gargi's writing style has been taught as a style
of creative writing in a Kolkata based English medium school.
3. She was a participant in the
Amazon Storyteller Competition. She had submitted the book titled
Malefic for this competition.
4. Erstwhile book
reviewer of popular English newspaper of Kolkata, The Statesman,
Mr Bipradas Bhattacharjee, has complimented Gargi with the
title, 'a writer with a golden hand'.
5. Rabindra Puraskar winning author Eva Khasnobish, has
commended Gargi saying, "She is evidently a very gifted writer",
after reading her books.
6. She was nominated for ACT Government sponsored one of the
multicultural awards (individual) in 2022.
7. She was nominated for Padma Shri (4th highest civilian award
of Indian Government) in 2022.
8. Gargi was the finalist
of Gayatri Gamarsh Award from the USA Bengali community.
9. Gargi was published in Indian and
Bangladeshi diaspora magazines (two separate) documenting an
extremely popular international gathering in the USA.
10. Nikhil Bharat Sahitya Sammelan (NBSS) magazine has published
her works.
11. Bahirbongo Sammelan mentioned one of her books, Dhansirhi, as
a high quality creation from outside West Bengal.
12. Gargi's story was included in a book with preface written by
noted writer Nabanita Deb Sen along with many other noted writers'
contribution.
13. Gargi was recipient of poems as a gift from legendary Oriya
poet Ramakanth Rath, whose poem she has translated.
14. Noted poet and ex-Bengali Statesman book reviewer, Udayan
Bhattacharya, has praised Gargi's creations.
15. She
started Sonajhuri where she herself, and other budding writers,
started writing along side famous writers and poets. They wrote,
they fought, they had a cuppa and robust discussions that led to
Sonajhuri touching the milestone of 100 continuous monthly
issues. With immense support from readers, Sonajhuri became
hugely popular with more than 100,000 monthly hits. She had to
close it down due to her failing health. People say Sonajhuri
was not a magazine, but an event. At the time of closing down
the domains www.sonajhuri.com and www.sonajhuri.net were worth
USD 12,500 and USD 7,900 respectively in the year 2010. Indian
Express mentioned Sonajhuri in an article about web magazines
written by Journalist Piyasree Dasgupta.
16. Veteran journalist Ms
Swati Bhattacharya has commented that Gargi's stories contain
real story lines, and it is not a narration of incidents.
17. Writer, scriptwriter and filmmaker (Hollywood and Bollywood)
Pinaki Ghosh has commented that he didn't have any specific
criticism on Gargi's creations, but just they are largely dark
unlike his preference, which is a mixture of dark and sunny
stories.