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1. What does Women Empowerment means to you?

To believe in myself is the first step towards empowering my abilities, bringing my dreams to life, and giving my 100 percent towards achieving it.

In general, women need to start believing in themselves to an extent they are ready to break the glass ceiling of whatever they have heard, seen, or experienced in their lives.

Empowerment might mean different to each one of us. The power to make that choice and take responsibility for it no matter what comes your way is being empowered in my opinion.

Not to forget, being a woman and supporting women is equally important be it in your family household, workplace, friends or anywhere for empowerment to shine in its true sense.

2. Who is your inspiration?

Oprah Winfrey is my all time role model as I'm always in awe of how she transformed herself despite her adversities to become one of the most popular talk show host and is even a producer, actress, author, and a philanthropist.

In my view she is one of the best examples of women empowerment. Fighting against all odds be it born into poverty or molested during childhood, she stood against all odds to be where she is today.

She is a perfect example of it doesn't really matter from where you come, all that matters is where you are going.

I love one of her quotes ' The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams'.

3. If you could change one thing in the World, what would that be?

I would want to change the concept of having different religions and only have humanity as one religion that should be followed by the entire world as I believe the world’s conflicts, wars, and other upheavals stem from intolerance towards each other’s religion.

4. Your view on Gender Equality?

In my view for any country to progress and for humanity to sustain there should be no bias towards any gender. Each gender should have equal opportunities in life and should get credit based on their hard work and ability.

5. How are you feeling being the Cover Star of Aspiring Achievers?

I feel blessed and thankful to PWP to provide me this platform of becoming the cover star of the prestigious Aspiring Achievers magazine. I hope my journey resonates with the readers and inspires them to believe in themselves and fulfil their dreams.

6. You have bagged so many Awards as your achievements, which one is the best achievement according to you till date?

I consider the opportunity to inspire others to be the best version of themselves as one of the most positive outcomes that have happened because of the prestigious awards and recognitions I’ve got till date. For me every award I’ve got and every achievement I’ve experienced is priceless.

7. How does being a Pageant Title holder feels like?

Each woman should feel like a queen, like a boss of her own life but having won the title of Mrs India International Queen First Runner-up has instilled that feeling in me which has helped me grow be it in terms of developing my overall personality, my confidence, and my outlook towards life.

8. What is your future career plan?

I work as a Program Manager in IT and will continue my career path in that direction. Besides that, being Mrs India International Queen First Runner-up has opened several other avenues for me in terms of featuring in events including music festivals and dance competitions, being invited as a judge for this season of the pageant, have featured in music videos and have done write-ups penning down my journey from a shy introvert woman to a world full of possibilities.

9. You received your Honorary Doctorate recently. How do you feel about that?

I would forever be thankful to PWP to recommend my name for Honorary Doctorate that I recently received from the prestigious ‘Grace Ladies Global Academy’ in Women Empowerment & Inspiration. I feel on the top of the world to be recognized in this category as the topic of women empowerment is very close to my heart and if I’m able to inspire even one woman to believe in herself and break the glass ceiling and have the courage to dream, to give her 100 percent effort to achieve it I would feel I’m going in the right direction.

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10. What has been the most 10. What has been the most positive incident of your life? positive incident of your life?

The birth of my son nearly 3.5 years back is the most beautiful gift of my life which has taught me a lot in a positive way. Participating in Mrs India International Queen has changed my life for all the right reasons I had dreamt as a little girl standing in front of the mirror pretending to have won the crown and giving my winning speech. I could never imagine this dream of mine coming true by winning the first runner-up title. I feel truly blessed to have experienced this which has opened the flood gates to the fact that nothing is impossible and if I can do it so can anyone else.

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