Manasa Varanasi

Manasa Varanasi is an Indian advocate, model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Femina Miss India 2020. She represented India at Miss World 2022 in San Juan, Puerto Rico where she reached the top 13.

Early life and education
Manasa Varanasi was born in Hyderabad to Ravi Sankar and Shailaja. She moved to Malaysia at a young age due to her father's work and attended the Global Indian International School and completed her grade 10 there. Later she returned to India, and completed her intermediate then studied computer science at the Vasavi College of Engineering in Hyderabad. After graduating with a computer science degree, she began work as a financial information exchange analyst at FactSet, in Hyderabad. She won the Miss Fresher title in the first year of her college.

Pageantry
In 2020, she won Femina Miss India 2020, representing the state of Telangana, on 10 February 2021. She was crowned as Femina Miss India World 2020 by the outgoing titleholder Miss World 2019 second runner-up and Miss World Asia Suman Rao, at the Hyatt Regency, Mumbai. During the pageant's sub contest ceremony, she won the Miss Rampwalk award. She represented India at Miss World 2021, on 16 March 2022 at Coca-Cola Music Hall, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Advocacy
Varanasi advocated strengthening child protection laws in India for her beauty with a purpose project. She also spoken about, "We Can", an awareness campaign against sexual abuse of children.