Manasa Varanasi

Manasa Varanasi is an Indian model, engineer and beauty pageant title holder who was crowned Femina Miss India 2020.[1] She represented India at the 70th edition of the Miss World 2021 pageant, held on 16th March 2022 at Coca-Cola Music Hall, San Juan, Puerto Rico. She was regarded as one of the strongest contenders for the Miss World 2021 Crown and made it to the Top 13.

Manasa Varanasi
Manasa Varanasi
Born (1997-03-21) 21 March 1997
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Alma materVasavi College of Engineering
OccupationModel
Height1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Beauty pageant titleholder
TitleFemina Miss India 2020
Hair colorBlack
Eye colorBrown
Major
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Early life and education

Manasa Varanasi was born in Hyderabad to Ravi Sankar and Shailaja.[2] She moved to Malaysia at a young age due to her father's work and was schooled at Global Indian International School and completed her grade 10 there. Later she returned to India, completed her intermediate then studied computer science at Vasavi College of Engineering Hyderabad. After completing her education and graduating with a computer science degree, she started to work as a Financial Information eXchange (FIX) analyst at Factset, Hyderabad.[3] She won the Miss Fresher title in the first year of her college.[4]

Pageantry

In 2020, she entered Femina Miss India 2020 and eventually won. She represented the state of Telangana at the Femina Miss India 2020 pageant. On 10 February 2021, she was crowned as Femina Miss India World 2020 by the outgoing titleholder Miss World 2019 2nd Runner-Up and Miss World Asia Suman Rao at Hyatt Regency, Mumbai. During the pageant's sub contest ceremony, she won the 'Miss Rampwalk' award.[5]

Miss World 2021

Varanasi represented India at Miss World 2020, held on 16th March 2022 at Coca-Cola Music Hall, San Juan, Puerto Rico where she reached the top 13 finalists. Varanasi's evening gown for the Miss World 2021 contest was designed by Falguni Shane Peacock.

Advocacy

Varanasi advocates to strengthen child protection laws in India for her Beauty with a purpose project. She also flagged off "We Can" a first-of-it's-kind awareness campaign against sexual abuse of children.[6][7]The change she’d like to bring about mostly has to do with access to quality education for children, that helps fuel youth, by giving them access to education and a chance to dream big.[8] Varanasi also initiated a project very close to her heart 10-9-8 child help-line which focuses on eradicating practices of child marriage, child abuse and many more in her home state of Telangana in India thus emphasizing on children's welfare. This project was Varanasi's Beauty With A Purpose (BWAP) for the 70th edition of the Miss World 2021 pageant .

References
  1. "Meet Manasa Varanasi, the 24-year old Miss India 2020 Winner From Telangana". makers.yahoo.com.
  2. "My goal now is to bring home the Miss World crown: Manasa Varanasi - Times of India". The Times of India.
  3. "Who is Manasa Varanasi, winner of Miss India 2020?". indianexpress.com. 11 February 2021.
  4. "Manasa Varanasi, the 23-year-old Telangana Engineer who Won Miss India 2020!". Leverage Edu. 10 March 2021. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
  5. "Telangana's Manasa Varanasi crowned VLCC Femina Miss India World 2020". thehindu.com. 11 February 2021.
  6. "Campaign against child abuse launched". The Hindu. 5 September 2021.
  7. "Manasa Varanasi supports campaign to protect children - Times of India".
  8. "Femina Miss India World 2020 Manasa Varanasi On Her Dreams & Achievements". femina.in. Retrieved 19 October 2021.


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