Femina Miss India Delhi 2023 @shreya.poonja is in her element as she gets felicitated for winning the Times Miss Body Beautiful Sub-Contest by Ruhi Singh, Miss Universal Peace & Humanity 2014.
I’m a confident person who knows what she wants in life. I am someone who loves to have fun, enjoy little things in life and have always done what I believed in regardless of the odds stacked against me. I love interacting with people.
I am associated with various Non Profit organisations that help to uplift the condition of the less privileged. I believe I’m happiest when I’m serving others and one such act would be when I interact with such children on a ground level, listening to their struggles, encouraging and helping them through my work.
I hail from a family where women have done everything independently with or without a man and the women around me have raised me to be the same. The most influential person in my life would be my grandmother, Who also has raised me. She was strong, compassionate and saintly and is the strongest inspiration in my life.
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What is the one thing that you’d want to change in the world?
If there’s one thing I could change it would be the gender pay gap that exists in every profession today. I believe hard work knows no gender and neither the credit a person gets for it should
What would you say to the world who believe pageants aren’t a good influence?
From the moment I’ve started my journey in pageantry, the amount of growth I have witnessed is truly immense. I got the opportunity to meet people from all walks of life who may be many in body but are surely one in mind. Standing for things they believe in and living their dreams. Hence in no way pageants are a wrong influence rather they give us young women an opportunity to use a platform to raise our concerns.
Rate in order of priority three must-have qualities for every woman
Courage, Intelligence and Grace
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What sets you apart from others?
I believe my perspective sets me apart from every individual. I am an exception to the rules set by the world and never have I let my circumstances decide the course of my life rather taken charge of every situation and worked hard to achieve things I wanted.
What is the Craziest rumor heard about yourself?
This would be that I’ve heard about myself was that I am quitting college because I have decided to pursue pageantry which of course was an absolutely fake news.
Biggest fear?
Loss of loved ones. I am extremely close to my family and friends and hence I don’t think there can be a bigger loss.
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What is your guilty pleasure?
Food definitely is my guilty pleasure.
If you were to given one piece of advice to the youth today, what would that be?
I believe the biggest mistake we can commit in our youth is to give up on our dreams and fall short of courage. Hence I would only encourage each person to follow their heart even if things are difficult, I have faith that they’ll be victorious.
