Awards Won By Richa
- Awarded second prize in Children's Book Trust's Competition for Writer's of Children's Books '94 for the science fiction manuscript, The Dream Machine. The book, which has since been published, was co-authored.
- Best PTI story prize for interview-based profile of Taslima Nasreen.
- Selected as an inward fellow for National Foundation for India's Northeast Media Exchange Programme in 1996. Subject was 'Life and living in the doomed chars of the Brahmaputra'.
- Awarded two prizes in the category Indian tales/ folktales in the Competition for Writer's of Children's Books '97. Both were co-authored.