Manasvi Mamgai

Manasvi
Born Manasvi
(1989-10-10) 10 October 1989
New Delhi, India
Height 1.71 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in)
Title Elite Model Look India 2006
Miss Tourism International 2008
Femina Miss India World 2010
Beauty pageant titleholder
Hair color Brown
Eye color Black

Manasvi is an Indian supermodel, a Bollywood Actress and a Former Miss India.

Manasvi is the Vice Chair of Republican Hindu Coalition, one of the largest and most politically influential organization in the United States of America, that advocates the interests of the 4.4 million Hindu-Americans. She along with her father Mr. Shalabh Kumar, founder of Republican Hindu Coalition, served as President Donald Trump’s surrogate during the 2016 United States Elections. Manasvi is also the Vice President and ambassador of the AVG group of companies, headquartered in Chicago. [1]

Previously she also won two other major beauty pageants Elite Model Look India 2006 and Miss Tourism International 2008. She's currently pursuing both Bollywood and Hollywood careers in addition to RHC activities.

Sometimes she is referred to as Manasvi Kumar (from Shalabh Kumar) and in Bollywood as Manasvi Mamgai but her official legal name is simply Manasvi.[2]

Early life

Manasvi was born in Delhi but grew up in Chandigarh. Her mother Prabha, is from Uttarakhand. [3] She was a child prodigy, and by the age of 15 she had already won almost 50 state and national awards in dancing, singing, skating etc. [4]

Modelling career

Manasvi won Elite Model Look India in 2006 and debuted at the Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week where she was chosen as one of 16 "New Faces Going Places". She also won the Miss Tourism International 2008 held in Malaysia on 31 December 2008. She opened the Miss World Finale in 2010 in the Dances of the world. It was the very first time that India graced the Dances of World stage. She won the Miss Popular title in the contest through voting. She was crowned with the title of Femina Miss India 2010 winning four subtitles including

  • Femina Miss Golden Heart
  • Femina Miss Catwalk
  • Gorgeous Femina Miss Beautiful Skin
  • Himalayan Femina Miss Natural Beauty

Since then she has walked the ramp for many top Indian designers and shot campaigns for Fair & Lovely, Tarun Tahiliani, Manish Malhotra, Sunsilk and many others. She also graced the covers of top Indian and International magazines like Vogue, Elle, Femina, Verve, Cosmopolitan, etc. She walked the ramp as the showstopper at Karleo’s show at India Beach Fashion Week in March 2017 held in Goa.

Political career

Manasvi is the current Vice Chair of RHC, Republican Hindu Coalition, which is the brainchild of her father Mr. Shalabh Kumar. RHC’s main mission is to create a strong Hindu voice and strengthen Indo-American relations in a real substantive way instead of just optics. Being a Trump supporter and popularly known as Indian Ivanka Trump, Manasvi actively campaigned for Donald Trump during the elections with her father Shalabh Kumar. She has been vocal about supporting Trump and worked effortlessly for the RHC campaigns during United States presidential election, 2016. Indian Media like NDTV Barkha Dutt often equates Shalabh Kumar and Manasvi Father-Daughter duo to Donald and Ivanka Trump.

Ambassador to Republican Hindu Coalition

Shalabh and Manasvi put together the "Humanity United against Terror" a Bollywood Charity Concert which took place on 15 October 2016 at NJ Exposition center in Edison, New Jersey. The concert was addressed by President-Elect Donald Trump with a gathering of more than 9,000 Hindu-Americans. She handled all the organizational activities of the concert and even performed in it with forty Bollywood celebrities including Malaika Arora Khan, Prabhu Deva, Sophie Choudhary, etc. Trump lit the traditional Hindu ceremonial diya and the entire 9000 strong crowd went wild. It was during this event, that the now-famous one-liner "Ab Ki Baar Trump Sarkar" was coined.

Eric Trump Visit to Hindu Temple
Manasvi organized a visit to a Hindu temple for Donald Trump’s son Eric Trump in Orlando, FL in order for him to take blessings from the Hindu Deity prior to election results. Eric’s visit to the Hindu temple in Orlando was a resounding success where he himself performed the traditional “Aarti” and prayed there for his father’s victory along with Kumar and Manasvi. He ended the visit by saying: “I am honored to have been adopted by you, the Hindus.”

Both the “Ab ki Bar Trump Sarkar” and “Eric Trump at Hindu temple” videos went viral on digital media cumulatively garnering over 2,000,000 views on YouTube in just a matter of days with both American & Indian media houses covering the news extensively.

Active involvement in President Trump’s pre-inaugural celebrations
Manasvi headlined the biggest performance at Trump’s pre-inaugural Welcome Celebrations, with Bollywood singing sensation Mika Singh which was held at Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC. She led over a dozen Indian dancers performing to some of the popular Bollywood numbers including the Oscar-winning "Jai Ho" of A R Rahman, enthralling several thousands of people gathered for the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States. The group dance included several other popular Indian songs including "Jumme ki Raat Hai". The Indian cultural show ended with the appearance of Republican Hindu Coalition chairman Shalabh Kumar appearing on the stage and waving at the audience. The live event was played out in front of 800,000 people and was telecast to over 2 billion viewers worldwide.

Manasvi attended all the Inaugural functions including the Trump’s VIP Candle Light Dinner at Union Station with the First Family along with various high-level donors mixed with his Cabinet nominees and members of Congress. Manasvi was spotted with various eminent personalities like Ivanka Trump, Caitlyn Jenner, Melania Trump, Donald Trump etc.

Post Election - Issue Advocacy Work
Manasvi along with her father Shalabh Kumar has been very active in the promotion of Hindu American interests. Along with her brother, Vikram Aditya Kumar, she attended the first time celebration of Diwali in the Oval office in the presence of President Donald Trump on 17 October 2017. The official release of White House photo of the day and video posted on White House facebook featuring the Kumar family went viral. Manasvi is very active in RHC Immigration campaign to have equitable treatment of DALCA kids (300,000 legal childhood arrivals from India who lose their status at the age of 21), and reducing the Green Card backlog of hi-skilled legal immigrants based on merit as cherished by President Donald Trump.

Other works

Shalabh and Manasvi, the father-daughter duo, were interviewed for the Off the Cuff show by Shekhar Gupta on NDTV India to discuss various benefits for Hindu Americans after Trump won the Presidential elections. Her contribution towards getting the voice of Hindus heard and developing the Indo-US relationship is commendable. As an ambassador of RHC, Manasvi delivered a great speech in protest against CNN Reza Aslan’s show ‘Believer’ in March 2017 at Chicago. Indian Americans agitated against the show describing it as racist and dangerously anti-immigrant. They alleged that it portrayed Hinduism in negative light.

Shalabh Kumar’s soul daughter (dharmaputri)

Manasvi is the soul daughter (dharmaputri) of Shalabh Kumar.

Kumar’s friend and spiritual mentor, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, the founder of Art of Living Foundation, hosted a full blown Vedic Hindu ceremony at his ashram in Bangalore, where Shalabh Kumar formally adopted Manasvi as his daughter as per Hindu traditions. [5]

References

  1. ↑ "Republican Hindu Coalition". Republican Hindu Coalition. Retrieved 2018-08-30.
  2. ↑ "name change".
  3. ↑ "About Uttarakhand".
  4. ↑ "Leading life with Rhythm, Chandigarh Tribune".
  5. ↑ Abki Baar Trump Sarkar. MCP books. 2017. p. 111.
Awards and achievements
Preceded by
India Pooja Chopra		 Femina Miss India World
2010		 Succeeded by
India Kanishtha Dhankhar
Preceded by
Romania Manea Florina		 Miss Tourism International
2008		 Succeeded by
Germany Sarah Elzanowski
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