Vanya Mishra

Vanya Mishra
Born	(1992-02-27) 27 February 1992 (age 31) Jalandhar, Punjab, India
Education	IIM Ahmedabad, Punjab Engineering College
Occupation	Entrepreneur
Height	172 cm (5 ft 8 in)
Beauty pageant titleholder
Title	Femina Miss India World 2012
Major competition(s)	Femina Miss India World 2012 (Winner) Miss World 2012 (Top 7)

Vanya Mishra (born 27 February 1992) is an Indian technology entrepreneur, dancer, former actress and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Femina Miss India World 2012. ^[1]

Vanya was born in Jalandhar, Punjab, and raised in Chandigarh. She studied electrical engineering at Punjab Engineering College. ^{[2] [3]} She represented India at the Miss World 2012 event in China in August 2012. She finished at 5th rank, and won two major subtitles out of six, Miss Multimedia and Miss Beauty with a Purpose . ^[4]

She has been the co-founder and managing director at her fashion discovery portal, SummerLabel, launched on Android. ^[5]

Early life

Vanya Mishra was born on 27 February 1992 in Jalandhar, India. Her father was an Indian Army officer and mother an engineer and former school teacher. She did her schooling from Chandigarh and later attended Punjab Engineering College (PEC).^{[ citation needed ]} She graduated in 2014 with a Bachelor of Engineering degree, and electrical engineering as her major. In 2022, she completed her MBA in general management from the Indian Institute of Management, IIM Ahmedabad.^{[ citation needed ]}

Miss India World 2012

In January 2012, at 19 years of age, she was chosen as all India winner Miss Dabur Rose Glow after winning multiple state rounds, getting her an entry into top 20 of Femina Miss India 2012. ^{[ citation needed ]} On March 30, 2012, she was crowned winner of Pantaloons Femina Miss India World in a glittering ceremony in Mumbai, Maharashtra. The judging panel included famous names such as Ekta Kapoor, Sanjeev Bajaj, Sonu Nigam, Harbhajan Singh, Sakshi Tanwar, Rohit Shetty. She also won 3 major subtitles, Maybelline Most Beautiful eyes, Dabur Most Beautiful Skin and Most Photogenic. She was crowned by Former Miss World Ivian Sarcos of Venezuela.^{[ citation needed ]}

Miss World 2012

In the same year, she went to represent India at the Miss World pageant held in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China. There she competed with 120 global winners from across the world. She was placed in Top 7 along with South Sudan, Australia, Wales, Jamaica, PR China and Brazil. Wenxia Yu from PR China won the pageant. ^{[ citation needed ]}

Work career

She has worked as a talent with Miss India organisation under The Times Group.^{[ citation needed ]} She created SummerLabel, a fashion discovery marketplace with the idea of empowering young labels, merchants and smaller designers. The company received an angel funding.^{[ citation needed ]} She continued being an entrepreneur till January 2017, after which she became a business executive.^{[ citation needed ]}

Awards

Vanya conferred with Most Distinguished Student Award by Punjab Engineering College.^{[ citation needed ]} She received Kalpana Chawla Excellence Award in New Delhi.^{[ citation needed ]} Hindustan Times rewarded her with young achievers award under HT 30 under 30. She was bestowed with Gr8! Women Achievers Award in Mumbai, televised on Colors channel. As a Miss India winner and entrepreneur she has been invited to various platforms to share her inspiring story and journey with future aspirants and leaders. She has been invited as chief guest at IIT Delhi, IIM Banaglore, IIT Roorkee, BITS-Pilani and more.^{[ citation needed ]} She has traveled extensively throughout the country giving inspirational talks to young people as National Youth Ambassador, and judged various talent shows. She has traveled to various NIFD across India motivating young designers to foray into the world of fashion. Poets&Quants ranked her 2nd amongst top favourite 12 MBA candidates in the world in the year 2021-22.^{[ citation needed ]}

References

1. "Vanya Mishra crowned Miss India World, 2012". India Today. 2 April 2012. Retrieved 15 August 2016.
2. Sashidhar (23 June 2014). "Miss India changed my life completely: Vanya Mishra - Beauty Pageants - Indiatimes". Times of India. Retrieved 15 August 2016.
3. Miglani, Meha (2 April 2012). "Punjab Engineering College students eager to welcome Vanya Mishra back". Times of India. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
4. "Miss World 2012: Vanya Mishra loses the pageant to Miss China" . Retrieved 20 August 2012.
5. Khan, Taslima (6 March 2017). "Gurgaon-based SummerLabel raises angel funding". The Economic Times. Retrieved 9 April 2018.

External links

• Vanya Mishra on Twitter
• Vanya Mishra on Facebook

Awards and achievements
Preceded by Kanishtha Dhankar	Femina Miss India World 2012	Succeeded by Navneet Kaur Dhillon
Preceded by Astrid Ellena (  Indonesia) and Stephanie Karikari (  Ghana)	Miss World Beauty with a Purpose 2012	Succeeded by Ishani Shrestha (    Nepal)
Preceded by -	Miss Multimedia 2012	Succeeded by Navneet Kaur Dhillon