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Vijayawada girl is Miss India USA Pranathy Gangaraju a Telugu Pride
Vijayawada Girl is Miss India USA Pranathy Gangaraju a Telugu Pride. Pranathy Gangaraju of Georgia was crowned Miss India USA 2014, which is the oldest running Indian pageant outside of India.
WASHINGTON: Pranathy Gangaraju of Georgia was crowned Miss India USA 2014, which is the oldest running Indian pageant outside of India.
Pranathu is the first Telugu girl to achieve such a feat in the last twnety years.
Parnathy is a native of Hanamkonda in Warangal. Her dad is from Vijayawada. The beauty queen spent her early years in Vijaywada before moving to the US.
Pranathy, 19, is a student majoring in film acting and production, a media release said. Her hobbies include dancing, singing, writing and swimming, a media release said.
At the 33rd annual pageant on Sunday, which was organised by the New York-based IFC, headed by Dharmatma Saran, Pranthy was crowned by outgoing queen Monica Gill.
Pranathy will represent USA in the Twenty Fourth Annual Miss India Worldwide Pageant, also organised by IFC, to be held in Goa, India in June of 2016.
Monica Shah, 24, of Florida and Angela Nand, 27, of Hawaii, were respectively declared first and second runners up among 21 contestants from various parts of the country.
Riya Kaur from New Jersey was crowned Miss Teen India USA and Namita Dodwadkar of Massachuseets was also crowned the First Ever Mrs India USA in the same pageant.
