This 5'8" girl likes Indian music and dance, has a flair for writing poetry and short stories, and enjoys reading, especially biographies.

She received the call to participate in the Femina Miss India pageant to which her parents had sent her photographs without her knowledge.

Incidentally all the three Miss India personalities of the pageant went on to win their respective titles for the year - Miss India Lara Dutta became Miss Universe 2000 and second runner-up Diya Mirza became Miss Asia-Pacific 2000. This was the first time the three titles of a year went to the same country.