Hyderabad, India’s Dr. Tejaswini Manogna to compete in Miss Earth 2019 in Naga City, Philippines

BY JILLIANINA ESTEVEZ ON SEPTEMBER 4, 2019 

Dr. Tejaswini Manogna, 23, will represent India in Miss Earth 2019. She is the 19th woman to represent the country in the international beauty pageant.

Hailing from Hyderabad, Telengana, India, Manogna is a prodigy who she has given honor to India several times in other fields outside beauty pageant. She is a doctor, a Bharatanatyam dancer, a Carnatic vocalist, a yoga practitioner, a sports person, a motivational speaker, a philanthropist and a medal-winning National Cadet Corps cadet.

Manogna attended Rosary Convent High School and Osmania Medical College, which are both in Hyderabad. She has undergone the Army National Cadet Corps training, according to Telangana Today.

When Manogna was 16 years old, she was adjudged as India’s Best NCC Cadet and Best Shooter among 13 lakh cadets of Army, Air Force and Navy. She is a student of Bharatanatyam guru Manjula Ramaswamy.

The newly crowned Miss Earth 2019 has an accreditation as graded professional artiste in Doordarshan. She won the Young Achiever award at the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation meet in Sri Lanka.

On August 31, 2019, Manogna was crowned Miss Earth India at the Kingdom of Dreams in Gurgaon, Haryana, India. In the same event, Surina Jaidka was crowned Miss Intercontinental India 2019 while the respective first and second runners-up were Rashmi Madhuri and Nikeet Kaur Dhillon.

It was not the first time Manogna competed in a national beauty pageant. She represented Hyderabad in Miss Diva 2017 where she finished in the Top 6.

Manogna was a yoga trainer for the police in Hyderabad. She was involved with the activities of a non-government organization concerned to child education, health and child labor eradication.

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