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The Femina Miss India pageant held on 10th February this year saw Manya Singh, a young daughter of an autorickshaw driver emerge as Miss India 2020 runner-up. The winners of the pageant Manasa Varanasi who was crowned Miss India World 2020 and Manika Sheokand who became Miss Grand India 2020 grabbed the limelight as expected. But it was the inspiring journey of Manya that made her a star on the internet.
When the young girl came in an autorickshaw with her parents, shutterbugs got busy capturing the beauty and her simple family in camera.
Manya Singh Arriving in Autorickshaw With Parents During Felicitation Crashed Internet
Instead of arriving in a car at a felicitation function organized by her college in Mumbai for her, Manya decided to use her father's autorickshaw. It was an emotional moment when she came out from the auto and put her crown on the head of her mother and wiped the tears off her father.
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She made sure that even her parents get their due for what she has achieved. With Indian flag in her hand, Manya Singh looked like a proud daughter who would always put her family and country first.
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Her mother could not hold her tears as Manya put her crown on her head when she was called on the stage.
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Manya Singh Inspires With Her Roller Coaster Journey
At the very young age of 14 years, Manya boarded a train from her hometown in UP to reach Mumbai and pursue her dreams all by herself. In her post, the beauty queen penned, "I didn’t know where it would lead me, but I knew I was meant to achieve great things. When I walked out of the station, Pizza Hut was the first place I saw–I somehow got myself a part-time job there & temporary accommodation."
When a few days later she called her parents and told them that Mumbai was the city where her dreams would be fulfilled both her parents decided to support her and came to the city of dreams. Manya recalls, "Papa said, ‘We’ll support you’; he drove an auto to make a living. Still, they put me in a good school. Alongside, I also worked part-time–I earned Rs.15,000 a month.
I was 15 when I watched the Miss India Pageant for the first time–I thought, ‘I’m going to win that crown someday & make Papa proud."
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But it was not easy for the young girl who had to fight patriarchy at home and rejections for not having good looks and knowing English. But Manya Singh did not give up. From mopping the floors at the pizza center to learning English she prepared herself on her own and eventually won Miss India 2020 runner-up.
Her dream is now to buy a good place for her parents and give them everything they need.
