Manasa Varanasi (born 21 March 1997,

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) is an Indian beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Femina Miss India 2020. She represented India at

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where she reached the top 13.

Early life and education

Manasa Varanasi was born in Hyderabad to Ravi Shankar and Shailaja. She moved to Malaysia at a young age due to her father's work and attended the Global Indian International School and completed her grade 10 there. Later she returned to India, and completed her intermediate then studied computer science at the Vasavi College of Engineering in Hyderabad. After graduating with a computer science degree, she began work as a financial information exchange analyst at FactSet, in Hyderabad. She won the Miss Fresher title in the first year of her college.

Pageantry

In 2020, she won Femina Miss India 2020, representing the state of

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, on 10 February 2021. She was crowned as

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World 2020 by the outgoing titleholder

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second runner-up and

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, at the

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. During the pageant's sub-contest ceremony, she won the Miss Rampwalk award. She represented India at

, on 16 March 2022 at

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Advocacy

Varanasi advocated strengthening child protection laws in India for her beauty with a purpose project. She also spoken about, "We Can", an awareness campaign against sexual abuse of children.

Filmography

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